I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

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.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.

Because I'm not really certain she'd make the best travel partner through a zombie-infested city, he hissed. She gets confused by Scrabble.

The essence of love is kindness.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.