“I mean, you really can't imagine how awesome coffee tastes, or how awesome it is to hear music, to hear idiots talking... I mean, it hurts. Everything hurts. But everything in the world is so awesome that sometimes I just can't stand it.”

“If you really like someone, it doesn't matter what their mouth feels or tastes like. The kiss is still awesome.”

“I mean, who wants to date a guy who thinks a girl who can't operate a fruit cup is attractive?”

“There a lot of things I can't do," he says. "With my... health.""Well," I say, "can you kiss girls?”

“Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.”

“When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.”

“Isn't it generally known that you have to overlook flaws in people you date, to some extent? I mean, you expect them to overlook your flaws. It's only fair that you overlook some of theirs.”