If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

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.

Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.