Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

You learn more from losing than winning.

Training is a necessary tool.

Planning is the process of identifying how best to use your resources to achieve your outcomes.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.