I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

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 world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

You know I love you, ' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it, ' said Coraline.

Mirrors, ' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

No, " said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Don’t beg for attention

....because injustice promote brutal and brutality alike.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.