It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess." You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you." Of course.

The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

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 was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.