The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

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.

Life becomes a dilemma when you are living a purposeless and goalless life

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. "Do you have something against happiness?""Yes. Don't tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)

Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.