Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

In every high school, there is a clique.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.