Dwayne:  I wish I could just sleep until I was _ eighteen _ and skip all this crap - high school and everything - just skip it .
Frank: Do you know who Marcel Proust is ?
Dwayne: He 's the guy you teach .
Frank: Yeah . French writer . Total loser . Never had a real job . Unrequited love affairs . Gay . Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads . But he 's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare . Anyway , he uh ... he gets down to the end of his life , and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered , Those were the best years of his life , 'cause they made him who he was . All those years he was happy ? You know , total waste . Did n't learn a thing . So , if you sleep until you 're 18 ... Ah , think of the suffering you 're gon na miss . I mean high school ? High school - those are your prime suffering years . You do n't get better suffering than that .