“Most fan fiction is terrible.”

“Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.”

“Love is friendship set to music”

“Generally, as a rule, the farther you get from clean-cut looks and fancy clothes the more interesting Straight Edge will probably get.”

“It seems that no one wants to be "ideological" anymore, and that includes being straight edge. On the one hand, you can see it as today's kids just being against "rules" of any kind, a sort of postmodernist end of ideology. On the other hand, you can see it as kids shying away from anything serious; from anything that demands deeper involvement. The result is that radical cultures are turned into commodities.”

“You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.”

“It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.”