You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick.

That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.

My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.