Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

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.

The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.

The corridors of success are illuminated more by our emotions.

Art never comes from happiness

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.