The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.