Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

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

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Madness, and then illumination.

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.