“When one is burying a dream, one might as well plant another dream.”

“If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.”

“It’s humbling, though, to think of all the stories that used to be, when they were at their best - before they were stories, when they were something previous, something infinitely more wonderful, brimming with potential, potent and inspired, and how they are diminished in the telling. That thing we imagine is out there cannot be captured on paper. The story is always something less than it was supposed to be, something less than when first glimpsed by the imagination.”

“I want my life to mean something!”

“Christianity void of sacrifice and commitment is only a religion without power.”

“The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.”

“Always dream, never stop dreaming and when you dream, dream of stars because you just might reach one someday.”