We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall

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.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

It'll all be over soon, and you can go back to ruling the world." She slid off her stool.... He watched her go. Felt unaccountably lonely. "When did I stop ruling the world?" he called after her.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

I feel like my life now, it's only getting better, which feels nice.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.