If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

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 spirit gone, man is garbage.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.