We don’t live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we’re just taking up...

As long as you’re not ‘gross full,'” Raj said. “That’s when you’re so full that it’s hard to breathe because your stomach is pushing up into your lung region.

Humans are…extraordinary. It’s a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.

Don’t try to be the next J.K. Rowling. Just try to be the first you.

You are organic, aren’t you? Or am I talking to a statue again?

Art shows what’s inside. And that’s scary. Showing my paintings would be like…like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd and showing them what color I bleed.

But this was just metal and glass once,” [Carter] said. “Raw materials. No form. No purpose. But Ben saw something in his mind. And the chemicals in his brain arranged to tell his hands to...

We’re family, right? We foul up and say we’re sorry and let it go.

You just…you don’t take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You’re real, and people respect you a lot for that.