Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

If you feel that you are going without go within

Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.

I would love to have everybody in the world love Bob Schneider. That's my goal- hundred per cent world domination!

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.