Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.