“I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.”

“Nobody likes me!""I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!""I hate myself for being so unreasonable!”

“What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the jobs I can't have now. I can also give myself skills I don't have.”

“I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.”

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

“I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”