“I would give a million bucks to have seen my mother say "cute shoes" to naked Ashley Judd.”

“All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver's license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a pizza, lend a steadying arm, laugh at a morbid joke and compliment a bad wig and I know the metric system. I doubt that's gonna be enough.”

“No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.”

“(On the energy radiated by the Sun)It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.”

“I didn't listen to her because she was my mother & wouldn't know anything until I was much older.”

“Last Minute:I have to buy all my presents at the last minute, she said, or I get too excited & just give them away.”

“One of Us:Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us.”