It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.