"Misbehavior is a key attribute of true genius." (p. 3).

"With one unlucky spin of the Wheel of Fortune I've plummeted from perfect happiness to absolute despair." (p. 28).

"What's the biggest problem with our school? It's that most kids don't' step up. Why I it okay that only a chosen few are seen as important and everybody else is a nobody?" (p. 79).

"I hear people say
These are the best days of our lives
But they don't know, they don't know
I like to think
That when we're older we'll laugh so hard
that today's tears will fade like old photographs" (p. 160).

"Their music gripped me in a way I can't even describe. I was mesmerized." (p. 163).

"Just because you're not part of a particular trendy crowd, does that really make you a geek? A loser? Does it make you a freak? Because if it does, then there certainly...