In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.

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.

A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Too much is never enough.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.