Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe

Die Fantasie ist wie ein Muskel. Wenn man sie nicht trainiert, verkümmert sie.

Manchmal ist der beste Weg etwas zu lernen, es falsch zu machen und dann zu schauen, was man getan hat.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.

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

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.'

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.