"Brownies are good for you when they're cold."
~A girl protesting the cooling of brownies

"I was in a band where we had a rule, all guitar or drum solos had to be at least one cigarette long... And I didn't even smoke."
--A guy standing outside Taqueria Cancun

Girl: ...i mean it's not like a want an UGLY boyfriend, but STILL!!!!

~ walking to class with her friend at Berkeley. yeah, those hottie boyfriends just aren't in style no more.

Passenger: You should slow down and turn right. [Pause]. I meant left.
Driver: I'm sorry, but I doubt I should take advice from a twenty-year-old sitting in a carseat.

~ jeep grand cherokee car riders in San Jose

"Your stomach hurts? And you haven't eaten anything? Eat something and it'll go away. If that doesn't work, rub your stomach and if THAT doesn't work, eat something AND rub your stomach."
~Guy talking to another guy in the hall

"confidence is that feeling you get right before you really understand the problem."

-a church sign in iowa

this is from the same church that brought us "if ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"

"...and when that debate was going on, we all had our modems turned up as high as they could go!"

- CEO at annual donor luncheon

"Don't vampires put you in a trance or something?"
"That's why you shouldn't smoke."
~Me and my sister. I'm not quite sure what she was thinking.

"There are a lot of crazy people in this world, Alyssa. Don't grow up to be one of them."

Aaron, 9 to Alyssa, 7 - back seat of the car, 1997

"'Good night, honey bun'? Oh *seriously*..."
- girl in Tiki