“The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed”

“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”

“Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight...”

“By now, ten trees must have been cut down just to document my mental health, which Nikki will hate hearing, as she is an avid environmentalist who gave me at least one tree in the rain forest every Christmas”

“You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield”

“Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical.""That's just a story.""So are we- we're stories too.”

“people outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions—and happy endings will flourish.”