Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

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.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.