As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don’t see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don’t see bankers...

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

As I look out at you all gathered here I want to say that I don’t see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don’t see bankers and...

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the...

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I’m not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never...

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you’d be able to find whatever you were looking for.

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That...

Fairy tales only happen in movies.” -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo’s father had...

Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn’t ask again. Right afterward she’d put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called “Space Oddity,” about an...

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free.” The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, “How about that?

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?” he asked Isabelle. “They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to...

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into...