“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”

“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”

“You must allow your free-will to roam as freely as you want and delve deep into your dreams. Never limit yourself nor live according to the appetite of someone else.”

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

“For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don’t want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself…A cliche is only a cliche if it’s happening in someone else’s life.”

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

“Before you judge someone else, judge yourself!”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”