“Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.”
“You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.”
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.”
“As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be.”
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”