You either see it or you don't

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost

Do you know why the rich get richer? It’s is because they spend time with other rich people.

I am familiar with the phrase, ‘needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

There are some fights none of us can win.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.