“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing i...”

“I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.”

“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”

“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”

“What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows," she says.”

“Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn't get it; tears were shed; comfort...”

“Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.”

“If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”

“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed since...”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed since...”

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

“Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!”

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”