Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.

A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don’t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.