I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.

Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.

People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.

My body is no schoolboy.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.