All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

I am hunted by humans.

It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.