There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

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.

There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Being punished doesn't mean you should miss out on being loved.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.