No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Practice, the master of all things.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together.

Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.