Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

I went to high school in Stockton, CA.