... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way.

If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.

Nothingness...there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed...

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Twitter's designed to reduce the language, directly out of 1984! It's Ingsoc!

It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.