"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten."

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

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

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."

"The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it."

"I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it."