So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

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

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.