I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I’d figured out early in my college career that t...
I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was...
First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's been shot, noise from my mother, I run to her room behind her, I'm jumping on the canopied bed while she cries, she's pulling out drawers ...
He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who’d ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who’d ever belonged where she hadn’t. My mama warned me about guys li...
Henry Miller, Genet, Sade, Bataille are really important writers for me and I love them, but I feel often they don’t love me, you know? I feel I always have to wrap my head around the way the girl is treated in the works, and the way the woman writ...
School was not a place I enjoyed.
I was a good student in school.
I did drop out of school.
I was a super nerd in school.
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck.
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.
I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.
We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.
Man I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED
I just look at the high and bright side of things.
You ain't living unless your living high
Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.
The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
