“I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive.”

“I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!”

“Some days I am all about the ironic gesture”

“Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.”

“It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.”

“Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all...But is it? Is it really better to know a thing you love only to lose it?If I'd known then what I know now...But that's the thing, isn't it? When you're living a thing...you don't know. You take it for granted, like a dog being petted, assuming it will somehow go on forever.If I'd known what I know now...I'd have touched everything in sight, everything I could get my hands on. I'd have grabbed the nearest girl I could find and not even caring how crazy she thought me, touched my hands to her face just to know what that feels like.Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all?I, never having loved before, have no real answer to that question.”

“How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?”