My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.