“If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.”

“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”

“Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.”

“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”

“Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his “precious.” And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.”

“Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain.It's yours. It's all yours for taking!You're not going to waste it now, are you?”

“The girl from the front row grabbed AIMii on the arm. “Remember, it’s bumpy.” “Why is the color of silence bumpy?” AIMii asked. “Because it’s hard to do,” she whispered loudly.”