High School is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

"There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him."

"We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend."

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" . . . and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."