They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

Besides, I’m not looking to get saved. I’m only going with her because it’s what you do when you’re in a relationship. You know? You slide into the third pew from the front and sit there thinking about how desperate all these people are to feel like something loves them. They’ll believe all kinds of hocus-pocus. But your girlfriend likes it, and you like her, so you do it. It’s called compromise. The only way you’re going to get something to last in this world is to work at it.

Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up - the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.