We're endangered by our own success..

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even..

Never Explain Anything.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story….

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

Sometimes you need to turn things down in the interest of being able to do the weird, magical thing that you do that takes so much of your time, and ….

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no adv….

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities ….

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, b….

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

You can make anything out of anything..

There is no later. This is later..

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape..

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise..

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort..

There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it..