The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but they’re kids. They don’t know what love is. Here they learn what...

Isn’t it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

And really–I would rather suck truck fumes than deal with this sort of shit forever. Mom says that Nader is a loser who will grow up to be a loser and that I’ll understand when...

Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.

tough.” I think of the stuff Dad has said over the years. How he finally gave up suggesting things. Why are you asking me this? I never figured out what to do about my own...

My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

I’m sorry, but I don’t get it. If we’re supposed to ignore everything that’s wrong with our lives, then I can’t see how we’ll ever make things right.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.

Here’s my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn’t a real Vocab word.)

Suicide isn’t something people do to hurt other people. It’s something people do to release themselves from pain.

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she’s gone, I know even more.

-he stopped and eyed Bill Corso–“if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

Sure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it...

No one has proved to me that my husband isn’t still alive somewhere in Southeast Asia. So, as far as I’m concerned, if even one man is alive, we own him more than this –...

Then I think of Charlie and our first New Year’s apart, and how I miss him. I miss him so much, but it’s confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that’s...

I’d rather feel something for real than pretend it’s not what it is. Which Zen guy said “If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water”?

She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

School’s important at the moment.Unsexiest statement ever.

I picked up my camera and held it at arm’s length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn’t Care.

She talks about how she can’t exercise because of the ailments-a bad back, sore knees, breathing difficulties-all caused by her weight gain.

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

After I lie there for a while, I realize that Dad isn’t every going to do anything but be there to drive us home from the airport. And cook. And if I want something bigger...

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

What occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house and my dumb school and my dumb job. But...

Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy. It’s not their fault – it’s not easy figuring out how...

Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we’re all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that!...

Oh. I get it now. God had Nader beat my ass and my mom leave my dad just so Jodi could learn how to chop onions and use a propane grill. Great. Awesome.

What’s the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I’m not sure if I’m mad or sane. I mean, I hold my...

We have this judgmental way of looking at the idea of leaving a home or a family, and our society has reinforced this idea that if we “run away,” we are “running away from our...

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

maybe if people weren’t so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.

I wish for world peace, because it’s about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and that this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude, what matters is if you’re happy. Whatmatters is your future. What matters...

Some of you have it ingrained in you. You weren’t born with it. No baby has hate for anything. We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn’t care what country you were born...

Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.