“People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody around them has to take it or go somewhere else.”
“Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.”
“Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.”
“You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.”
“My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.”
“In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.”