I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Werewolf games, " Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.

I was always the girl who wore the mismatching socks, frizzy hair, ponytail I wouldn't take out for a week, and cutoff jean shorts that were at my knees.

Healing is an inside job.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.