“Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.”

“There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced,they assign responsibility for success and failure more even-handedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.”

“I sing to the realists .People who accept it like it is .”

“Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.”

“Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.”

“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”