No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?