“She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.”

“School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.”

“High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone”

“I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.”

“By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have babies, go to grad school, get divorced. They start a band or enter the penal system. They vanish for years at a time - some come back, some don't. Some of them you wait for and some you let go. Sometimes the only way they come back is in a song.”

“A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”