But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza.""Turn your ear to the wind, " she interpreted. "Stand strong.

Never cry for the same reason twice.

experience is nothing but maturity. maturity is nothing but experience

If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.