It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

Crime generally punishes itself.

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

I think about every song is pretty much raw emotion - even if it's not specifically about topic there's songs like "All I Know Is Pain" and "Green Piece of Paper".

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.