For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

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.

What it is, it is.

Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure.

Life is too short to spend on a book you don't enjoy.

You live your life between your ears.

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

If I were to direct an episode, then there would be no one for me to blame, and that's not any fun. It's more about sitting in the back seat and trying to drive.