Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

Cyber will be part of any future conflict - whether it's a nation state or terrorism.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.