That’s how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must’ve got left out.

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything’s old hat. They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything...

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the...

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to wherever time washes things away to.

Goodbye. Goodbye. I can’t feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic weeds rise up...

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don’t worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that’s the biggest power you can have.

Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides.”I can’t dance like Cassidy,” she says.”Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that’s perfect.

Don’t worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that’s the biggest power you can have.

This stage in the life of the buzz is truly fabulous. It’s not even a buzz anymore. It’s a roar. The world opens up and everything’s yours right there, right now. You’ve probably heard the...

Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it’d be a marshmallow.

weeds rise up from the cracks in the sidewalk, and the colored lights of the Hawaiian Breeze ignite the broken glass in the gutter. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into...

When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.