I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
Ned VizziniI had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
Ned VizziniI've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
Ned VizziniI don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
Ned VizziniThat's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
Ned Vizzini