The best lies about me are the ones I told.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

A toast, " she declared. "To an incredible summer kicking butt and chasing dreams.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

I believe in God. I always have. There's a reason that everything happens in life.

Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.