You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

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.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.

A person who is innocent is extremely humble.

The dice are stacked against them

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.