My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

End of story. ‘Happily ever after’ fell on everyone like a guillotine’s blade.

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

Farming is a most senseless pursuit a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it.

People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.