The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.

I know when I like to go see a show, I like to see people show as many different facets of themselves as they can, because I think that's the fun of it.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.