“A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date.”

Some of them are wearing skirts that I’m pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

Not that anyone minds–no one’s paying attention to the music.

What kind of guidance counselor are you?

We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you’ll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women’s rights as part of its reforms.

Ironically, the section on women’s rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens’ rights into it, it would never pass.

Let me get this straight,” I say. “You’re practically ordering me to die.

They don’t know what it’s like when a song changes your life.

When you’re dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it’s like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world.

Practically no one actually does.

Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing.

The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.

Never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he’s probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word “married” on the first date (he’ll turn out to be a mama’s boy or a religious type)

Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

The kiss is still awesome.

If you’re callin’ ’bout my heart, it’s still yours / I should’ve listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn’t have taken me so long / To know where I belong

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.

There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?

It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

Rule #3 – It’s okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.