Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

Audrey turned to him, a sly little spark hiding in her eyes. "THe only man who gets to call me'love' would be waking up next to me after a very, very fun n

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.