If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.

The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.

We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.