The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Are all your stars shining?

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.

I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.