You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

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.

I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.