When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.

You think you're the only one?" Theo said. "Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait

right now,I am my father

I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.

Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

It’s a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it.

You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom's room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life.

The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

History is biology's dumping ground

That was when things got weird. You may have thought things were weird already, but this was uber-weird

The key to success is simple. Make people dream.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.