This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think will have MAD stamped across it.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

She was asked to pour out everything she had, but all she had was an empty soul.

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her. - Ryan

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Don't do anything stupid.

Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.