“What's wrongwith being out there, out there like a starshining in the night when that's the only waythe star can be seen? You never tell a star:HeyTone it down.”

“A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch”

“This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.”

“You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake”

“Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.”

“(Quoting Goethe:)"We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”

“The point is that being a minority isn't only about the color of your skin or your religion. it's about not fitting in, being on the outside.”