It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

‎"I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

I jog through the halls and then go upstairs to Jane’s locker and carefully slip the note I wrote last night through the vent: To: The Locker Houdini From: Will Grayson Re: An Expert in the Field of Good Boyfriends? Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.