Quotes from Ned Vizzini

How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.

We wear our problems diffrently

I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.

I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement

If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

It's a talent I've developed-one thing I've learned recently. How to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.

I jumped in the mosh pit, and some kid punched me in the chin, so I swung on ceiling pipes and kicked people in the head.

Don't do anything stupid, okay? I won't, I tell her, and that's not a lie. What I'm doing makes a lot of sense.

I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul.

Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?

You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.

We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there

the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, who's coolest? Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together

When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was coo: 'Eulalia.' And like an idiot that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: 'Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!' And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

I feel it in my pocket. I don't want to lose it. It's one of the only things that's making me me right now. Without my cell phone, who will I be? I won't have any friends because I don't have their numbers memorized. I'll barely have a family since I don't know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. I'll be like an animal.

Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them.

That's worst than gonerreha, man!