I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.