Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.

Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

The most easiest thing is to leave, abandon or forget somebody.. Difficult is to be with someone, after all it comes with responsibility which not everyone fulfill.

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.