To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

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.

Sometimes life is about risking everything for a Dream that no one can see but you.

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names?

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.