If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

God of hope.

If you can forget the person you love, you have not loved enough.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.