Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.

Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.

When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

I've never been in love with Marcello [Mastroianni]. I wasn't even attracted to him physically. I admired him. I followed him and supported him, but nothing ever clicked.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.