Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes.

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.

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.