“Let me give you free advice, kid. Whenever something is coming for you, snap its neck or double tap. Never, ever hesitate. It’s infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.” – Death”

“Kids, you better listen to the folks than me. It's not for children.”

“When you’ve had something for ten years that you hold so precious, it’s the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. And the only advice I can give you is, find somebody better than you to hand it to.”

“And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.”

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

“I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night.”

“Whenever we judge others, it emanates from our fear, and separation. When you feel separate from everything around you, then you judge it. When you are connected to something, there is no need to judge.”

“Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.”

“Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, "Your books have made me trust you."”

“What gives me grounds for optimism is that this is the only country on the face of the Earth where if you tell a 10-year-old kid, "You can't do" something and it strikes him as absurd, a 10-year-old kid looks up and says "It's a free country." This is the only nation on Earth whose children say "It's a free country."”