“You can always make something out of nothing.”

“He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something, being good.”

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.”

“Go to College, Stay in school, If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”