feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

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

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.