Don't forget no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Wondering is healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Because the bottom line is, I believe I can make a difference. Not a big one. What I do is just a small ripple, but I know it helps. And if enough little people like me make our small differences, one day we’re going to wake up to find that we really did manage to change the world.

Nothing strikes me as truly weird,” Jilly told him. “There’s only stuff I haven’t figured out yet.

I can’t think of a better rationale to create a work of art. I don’t care what form one’s art takes, it has to be an attempt to leave the world a better place than it was before we got here or it’s not doing its job. And I don’t mean just making things that are pretty.

You could only make art by setting it free. Anything else was just a memory, no matter how you stored it. On film or paper, sculpted or recorded.

I wonder if the world’s getting worse, or if we’re just paying more attention to the shadows.

But most of us strive for harmony. The fact that we can fall into the darkness is what makes our choice to reach for the light such a precious thing.

Everybody’s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it’s the choices we make that define who we really are.