...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

No, " I say. "I didn't know that, " and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time.

From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.