The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.