The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

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.

It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition.

I just like to write and then perform.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.