people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.

Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.

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.