Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

[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.