Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.