Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fine. Jesus," and then she has to go cut cancer out of someone.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.