The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.

Guilt is what makes you accountable.

...real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

I know my whole life has been like that, you know, scrappy, fighting for everything you get in life and you appreciate it more.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.