Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.

Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

This one's for Alaska Young!

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.