Daria Morgendorffer

"Most conversation is just people waiting for their turn to talk."

"I've noticed that people rarely do what makes them happy."

"The pursuit of knowledge is noble, but the pursuit of happiness is usually futile."

"I'm not cynical. I'm just well-informed."

"Death would be less painful than attending another school assembly."

"Why does everyone assume that because I'm quiet, I'm depressed?"

"I could participate in school activities, but I'm not sure why I would want to."

"The human race should be studied before they're allowed to reproduce."

"I've learned that reality is often more disappointing than fiction."

"People are surprisingly easy to manipulate if you know what they want."

"I don't understand why people pretend to enjoy things they obviously don't."

"Honesty is overrated as a policy."

"I find that time is the one resource nobody seems to respect."

"Why do people insist on making things more complicated than necessary?"

"I accept my role as observer of human folly."

"The reason people get married is because they've run out of other options."

"I've noticed that the people who talk the most usually have nothing to say."

"It's not that I lack ambition. I just have other priorities."

"I find that most people's problems are self-inflicted."

"Why should I care what other people think when they rarely think at all?"

"I don't believe in luck. I believe in inevitability."

"People spend their whole lives trying to be someone else."

"I've learned that progress usually results in something worse."

"The future is just an extension of the past, only with different fashion."

"I find that most human interaction is just ritual without meaning."

"Why does everyone assume that being right is the same as being happy?"

"I'm not antisocial. I'm just selectively social."

"Most people would rather be liked than be right, which explains a lot."

"I've discovered that adult life is just high school with money."

"The purpose of art is to make people think, or at least that's the theory."