“There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.”

“You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.”

“With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?'[Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.'"Page 246”

“There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat.”

“The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).”

“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are... The good writers touch life often.”