It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

If you don't recognize the racist element in the teabag movement, you're either dishonest, or you've never seen the teabag movement, or heard of it, or been acquainted with it in any way.

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.