Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

When it was first optioned, I was told that the chances of The Basic Eight becoming a film were slim because no one was making teen movies, and then later, I was told that the chances were slim because there were so many teen movies, and then I was later told that the chances were slim because teen films were over. I'm not sure when the magic window of opportunity was, but perhaps it's still on the horizon.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.