There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

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.

they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

The center of our economic revival we'll be fixing our really horrendous, one-way street, horrible trade deals.

Anything we want to do, we can do. If we can dream it, it can be done.

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.