"The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going away party. To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically."
p. 3

"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."
p. 4

" 'Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.'"
p. 5 - Miles

"I'd never been born again with the baptism and weeping and all that, but it couldn't feel much better than being born again as a guy with no known past."
p. 8

"So Chip became...