It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

“I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.”

“We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”

“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”

“We often confuse what we wish for with what is.”

“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”

“What do stars do? They shine.”

“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.”

“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”

“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”

“I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.”

“It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.”

“It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.”

“You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.”

“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.”

“We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.”

“We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.”

“As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.”

“When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”

“Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.”

“You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”

“I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”

“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.”

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”

“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”

“Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.”

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”

“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”

“This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things.”

“Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”

“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”

“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”

“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”

“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”

“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”

“Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”

“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”

“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.”

“The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.”

“It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.”

“As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. ”