“True or False? The delusion that doing well in school will win me love has disfigured my life. Discuss in 5-7 pages.”

“...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.”

“The obsessions of others embarrass and repel because they seem to dehumanize, to make the obsessed one robotic and alien and unavailable.”

“I loves me my Google”

“A quote is not an ideaa you write in some random place but something somebody says that has a true meaning for the listeners”

“It was true. I wasn't good with liking someone. my instinct was total self-preservation: show no sign of weakness. This was my pathetic way of being shy.”

“As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.”