When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

Its much more easier to know just one thing about everything in this universe than to know everything about only one thing in this universe.

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?