School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.