As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

Let weakness learn meekness.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

We look for God as though he were not already here.