...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

I talked about deporting people that are here illegally. They're here illegally. We either have a country or we don't. I talked about deporting people that are here illegally.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.