"Hell to be me was my grandfather's cellar. It stank like a public toilet, and was just as filthy. The dank concrete floor was littered with empty beer cans and everything was coated with a film of grease that probably hadn't been wiped wince my father was a boy" (Chapter 1, pg. 3.)

"'I know some new tricks,' said the Cat in the Hat. 'A lot of good tricks. I will show them to you. Your mother will not mind at all if I do'" (Chapter 3, pg. 31.)

"I knew that Brian Warner was dying. I was being given a chance to be reborn, for better or worse, somewhere new. But what I couldn't figure out was whether high school had corrupted me or enlightened me. Maybe it was both, and corruption and enlightenment were inseparable" (Chapter 3, pg. 32.)

"When you have friends, you form a band. When you're lonely, you...