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

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

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.

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

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.