“Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.”

“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

“I may say things with the right intention, but more often than not, people will misconstrue it.”

“You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.”

“HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.”

“But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”

“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”

“I've had about fifty people tell me that I fear intimacy. And it is true. I fear what people will think of me, and that is the reason I don't date very often. People really like me a lot when they only know me a little, but I have this great fear that if they knew me a lot they wouldn't like me. That is the number one thing that scares me about having a wife because she would have to know me pretty well in order to marry me and I think if she got to know me pretty well she wouldn't like me anymore.”

“Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.”

“The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty.”