Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.

I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.

But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.

Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.