Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

Enjoy life while it is happening.

Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.