“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love… You can't own a human being.”

“Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.”

“Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?”

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”

“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”

“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”

“Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.”

“Somewhere, the deepest desire for us all is to be appreciated, to be loved, to be seen as somebody of value. But not just seen — and Aristotle makes a difference between being admired and being loved. When you admire people, you put them on pedestals. When you love people, you want to be together. So really, the first meeting I had with people with disabilities, what touched me was their cry for relationship.”