Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.

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.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

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.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.