“Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?”

“Isn't that why people keep diaries -- to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?”

“Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.”

“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

“Most of us always want to be different; better, prettier, richer, smarter, and so on. That's what makes us jealous of other people's advantages that we don't have. And that is also the reason why we are never satisfied and do not feel happiness.”

“Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.”

“Isn't it better to be alone than pretend you're someone else? Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.”