Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.