“Go get your bus, square boy.”

“Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.”

“There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.”

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”

“...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.”

“They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.”

“They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.”