Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating….

It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable diffe….

New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the sta….

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacit….

People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem….

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it..

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this….

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll chan….

You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?.

I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them b….

I only feel like myself when I am alone..

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people..

I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that sh….