When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

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.

How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?

I hate that you went through hell for years and that you suffered. But without your past, you and I wouldn’t have a future.

What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do . . . fight

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.