Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.

You'd be surprised how rare loyalty is, sometimes.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

Theology is unnecessary.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.