I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

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.

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?

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.