The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.