In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

In the great green room, there was a telephoneAnd a red balloonAnd a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...

You can create financial abundance by having a positive relationship with money.

I believe that every story has happy end, Just don't stop trying to get it

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.