"I've been married going on 9 years, but this past winter I had this insane lesbian affair with a girl from my work. She moved to California one month ago, but we still talk on the phone for hours on end. -who knew?! It's our secret..." -M.

"ONE TIME I GOT TO RIDE IN A REALLY COOL CORVETTE. IT WAS REALLY COOL. IT WAS A CONVERTABLE. THAT WAS COOL. IT WAS RED. MY FREND JEFF WAS DRIVING. I ASKED IF I COULD DRIVE AND HE SAID NO. I ASKED WHY NOT AND HE SAID 'CUZ I WAS MENTALLY RETARDED. OH YEAH, I SAID, I FORGOT. THEN WE PULLED UP TO A RED LIGHT. THERE WAS THESE GIRLS THAT WERE LOOKING AT US AND THEY WERE SMILING. I LOOKED AT HER AND SHE LOOKED AT ME. I SAID HEY LADIES WHAT'S UP? THATS WHEN ONE OF THE GIRLS, SHE WAS REAL PRETTY, SHE SMILED AND SAID HEY YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD IN YOUR HAIR. THEN THEY DROVE OFF. THAT HAD IMPACTED MY LIFE 'CUZ IT WAS THEN THAT I REALIZED I WAS RETARDED." –B.

"How can you not have an ending? A definitive ending? "How did she die? I dunno, she's not around anymore so she must have died, I dunno." What the fuck is that?!! I suppose open-ended questions allow us to believe our opinions are worth a damn. Even if we're not the sharpest tool in the shed, we search the most profound and strange sections of our minds for the most profound & strange anwer we can find. No one can tell us it's wrong.... or right. Most times listeners will nod their head slightly forward and say "uh-huh". The first time I was asked an open-ended question I was so excited I almost shit my pants. It was my time to shine and no one could take that away unless you were some ruthless cold hearted prick which it is sometimes fun to be but if I'm the victim - fuck you, I'm trying my best here. I was amazed at the fact that there was no definitive answers. No absolutes. Only Sith deals in absolutes. If that is true, they maybe the most passionate and romantic people on earth. "I'm absolutely in love with you." "I'm absolutley feeling a sting in my stomach." "That's absolute emotion - the most absolute emotion man can absolutely feel." "I've absolutely overdone this - that's the only absolute!" One thing is for sure, with out an ending, anything is possible. I've always imagined going out at the height and the prime of my life like Seinfeld and not haveing any thing negative to look down upon or back at with exception to the few awkward adolescent years and early twenties when I was sorting out my priorities. So you ask me what has inspired me or made a difference in my life 0 one example for me would be the first time I was asked an open-ended question. I could go on but I think I over shot my target here. I'll just say that I feel nothing but gratitude for these few moments when I have given an answer and no one can question it and must accept it only if it is for those few pathetic moments. I live for those moments. But then I come back to reality." -R.T.

"Sometimes I find staring at people who are staring gives you an adreline rush. the predeter becomes the prey w/o ever knowing it. A person can sit and laugh at the faces and actions and general body language of another while producing a comical show for another through their reactions. The play goes around and around." -J. R.

"I feel bad for the ink on these pages."

"Things that impact your life very often are different from person to person but one thing that remains the same is you always think you're the only one. But what you need to remember is smiling is free and it won't mess up your hair."

"I remember when i was about 6 or 7 and i was walking around a video rental store and i was looking at all these video cases. On the back there would be pictures of half-naked girls, and i remember thinking about these girls... imagining myself doing dirty stuff with them. Then, a couple of years later, we found a dirty porn mag out in the woods behind my house and those pictures really shocked me. But in a cool way. I was obsessed with sex from that point on."