Don’t make me angry-kiss you

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Emergency dance party--go away.

I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

She was tired of being the one who cried.

I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything

If your prospect like your product, they'll tell 10 people. If they don't, they'll tell 1, 000.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.