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.

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.

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

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 just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.