Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.