For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.