Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Nothing succeeds like address.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.