It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Success is outliving your failures

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shovelling while it's still snowing.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our ways because they are our stories.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

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

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.