Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.

Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.