There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford

Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this job.

The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.