You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up.

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

I am practicing being kind over being right.