A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.