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Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.
The possibility of pain is where love stems from
Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.
If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?
There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.
There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.
All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.
Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.
Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'
Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.
Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.
The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.
You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.
You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.
Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.
I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.
My mum always said I devoured 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' at the tender age of four, but frankly, I think that might be a touch of maternal exaggeration.
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.
Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.
Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.