Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.

All you need is one thought and one word. When you learn how to connect them, you can do anything you like.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

It doesn't matter what your name is!

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

But how can one be warm alone?

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.