You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

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.

Love isn’t for the weak, it’s for those brave enough to risk it all.

There is very seldom any true secret.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.

Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.