Just ask. How young did you have to be, how beautifully ignorant, to issue that kind of blank check?

It's a blank check,

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

I said it to Drew in my brash, young, ignorant way, I don't know who it is know, but I know who will be in about 10 years.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.