“Others will, typically, encourage you to be typical. It makes them feel better about their typicalness.”

“But disasters are made of paper. You make a decision or two, then walk in to them like you would a harmless corner store, and soon they’re behind you, on the enormous pile of dead and harmless disasters that once had you worried sick.The sky has fallen a thousand times already.”

“It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child’s desire to feel that a parent actually likes them, as love itself is so automatic and preprogrammed in a parent that it isn’t a very good test of whatever it is that the typical child feels so anxious to pass the test of”

“Thoughts repeat themselves. Experiences do not.”

“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”

“How typical of a machine to think it knows better.”

“you aren't alone because you are ugly or unattractive - you are alone because everyone, including you, is afraid to express themselves - practice self expression and the world is yours”