Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.

I'm very comfortable writing.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.