Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

I do, Augustus. I do.

Teenagers think they are invincible

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

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