You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

The worst things weren't outside of you.