Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust.“It’s going very well and it will be finished when I write the words ‘The End’.

My brothers and I love A Christmas Story. It reminds us of ourselves when we were that age." "Your father didn't want to give you a BB shotgun because you might shoot your eye out?

As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.