Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.

…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

Life is hard. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're lying. But life without faith is even harder.

The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.