284 Quotes by Ned Vizzini

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.

There’s a lot of yuppies in this place, and you have that look about you, you know – the yuppie look of people with money?” “Yeah.” “People who don’t care about other people.

We wear our problems diffrently.

I shrug. I don’t really need to explain this to Aaron. He’s been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he’s going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I’m smart but not enough – just smart enough to have problems.

They’re sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they’re important – everybody knows that; the TV tells you so – but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody.

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.

I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Don’t kill yourself, okay?