“But such was the way with people they loved the things that made them miserable.”

“Hes looking for people he can be himself around. Arent we all?”

“You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I'm talking about when I was young, in the sixties? Back then we knew there was a soullessness to the sellouts, an...”

“Shed decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when youre twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you dont know what your small true part is until much later.”

“What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the minds secrets.”

“It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.”

“A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?”

“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”

“Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they b...”

“Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.”