What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".

Do you mind if we leave here so I can chain smoke 'til I throw up so it will be easier to quit?

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.