She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind.

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.