“If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.”

“Fame can't give you a hug. Fame can't keep you warm. The only way fame can keep you warm, is if you put all your publicity in a pile and burn it.”

“Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life!”

“Sweet talk's like salt. You can add some later, if need be, but if you pour out too much, you can't sift it out again.”

“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for nightWithout me you’d be blindYou take me for granted every timeBut now you can’t see you set a sparkI come alive and rid out the dark Now you see in the light useless toolBut go where you can’t see and you’re the foolpoem i wrote”

“People always talk about how great Deathday Letters are. About how they give people a chance to say goodbye. About how terrible the world would be without them.”

“Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.”