Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

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

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

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.