Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

The true voice is a good spirit.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

There's no such thing as the United Nations.

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.