“No is for wimps. No is for pussies. No is to live small and embittered, cherishing the opportunities you missed because they might have sent the wrong message. There is a point in one’s life when one cares about selling out or not selling out. … The keeping real of shit matters to some people, but it does not matter to me. It’s fashion, and I don’t like fashion, because fashion does not matter.”

Dave Eggars, from an eMail interview in the Summer issue of The Harvard Advocate, from the August 2000 issue of Harper’s Magazine, p19