I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

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.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

We worship money instead of honour.

You might be a redneck if there are more than ten lawsuits currently pending against your dog.

The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.