Neil Gaiman: "First of all..."

"First of all, when you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you're doing. This is great. People who know what they're doing know the rules and they know what is possible and what is impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone from doing that particular thing again."

–Neil Gaiman's commencement speech on the life of an artist

Lewis Carroll: "There's no use trying..."

"There's no use trying," Alice said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Matthew Cody: "Others might have dismissed..."

"Others might have dismissed what they saw as a hallucination, but I... well, I've always believed in the impossible."

—Matthew Cody, Powerless, (p183)