I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.