The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

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.

Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That's why it is magic.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Those who don't hate evil hate those who do

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

His gaze travelled down me, then zipped back to my face. "Sorry." "Focus, Rafe." "I am. Just on the wrong thing.

I want to sing songs which will touch people's hearts.

The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.