So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.