Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.

I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.