It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

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 effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That's sexy!

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.