We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.