I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

He's such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he's so strong.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?