For a long time–into my teens actually–I was convinced that when you became a grown-up, you were invited to a special meeting where all life’s mysteries were explained. This was why adults always knew everything, and why I was perpetually perplexed.
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“I couldn’t understand the difference between a sound track in a movie, which the actors supposedly couldn’t hear, and if there was a radio on in the movie, which the actors could hear. Music would be playing and I’d say to my mom, ‘OK, can they hear that? OK, now can they hear that?’”
–Rudy Heigel
“If it was raining out and a fire truck went racing by, how could there be a fire? I mean, if it was raining, wouldn’t the water just put it out?”
–Tammy Semmer
“I didn’t get what was so controversial about youth in Asia.”
–Scott Wojahn
