I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

It takes two to make an accident.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.