Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

I will take a little bit of credit because I did come up with 'you're welcome.'

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

I never thought I would be divorced.

I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.

Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.