Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

May God give you much grace for every great work.

If it's public, it's not bonding.

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

People have one thing in common; they are all different.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

What is this universe but name and form?

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.