“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”