You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.