Childhood: "But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell." - Louise Bogan

7th & 8th grade: "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

9th grade: "It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it." - Finley Peter Dunne

10th grade: "School makes the eyes useless, but oh the pretty things I can see when I stop looking." - Nightshade

11th grade: "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." - Edward Everett

12th grade: "They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing." - Richard Yates

Freshman year: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Sophmore year: "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." - Theodore Roosevelt

Junior year: "I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?" - Author unknown

Senior year: "We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2004: ""Sometimes I lie awake at night in my bed and I watch the Stars, and I wonder, where the fuck is my ceiling?" - Tiffany-Joanne

2005: "I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear the rumblings beneath the surface." - Steven Sondheim

2006: "If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music." Gary Arnold, Merchandising Manager, Best Buy

Miscellaneous photos: ""Reality and I had a fundamental differing of opinions. We're currently undergoing trial separation." - Lothriel the PIXIE