The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me.

So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.