I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

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.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America, " he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.