For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

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.

It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

When I take the oath of office next year [2017] I will restore law and order to America. Believe me, believe me.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Everybody supplies their own ammunition for their own execution

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

Who can blind lover's eyes?