I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.

Perfection is based on your own perception of what is perfect to you

The Just God.

Life is like the clouds we see everyday.The dark, white patches and its mixtures.These are what we see and experience everyday.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.