talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine.

...Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

Popularity can be a real headache.

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

favor de dejar un especimim em este copa para el doctor what? she told you to pee in a cup, i think that means get lost

Compete like you cannot fail.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.