Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.