Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.

If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation).

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.