“I'm gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That's my motto.”

“Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

“I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?”

“Pretendin'. I'm still pretendin'.For the rest of my life, I'll be pretendin'.How ya doing? they ask,and I say,Okay, man,even though I'm not.I'm not okayand I'm never gonna be okay again.I just don't get it, how they don't see myinsides hangin' out, when it's all I can doto put these feelings into wordsbecause words don't meana thing.—Joe”

“I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.”