At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

“Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.”

“For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of t…”

“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”

“hair Butch waxed so heavily that it seemed to scream up from his skull.”