Markus Zusak Quotes

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

The popular girls let me hang out with them because I was funny. They told me that. 'You're not popular, but you're funny.' Now all my friends are funny.

I'm not clique-y.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

There are friends of mine that I've known for years who didn't like my brand of humor, but once I was on 'Drag Race,' they loved it.

In high school, I made friends with people in every social group. Or at least that's how I perceived it. I thought they liked me. Maybe they didn't!

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

You get the sense that [John] Hughes is so right about the way groups divide and then divide again and then sometimes align and then sometimes break apart. And this idea that Michael Hall's character says, "On Monday, are we going to be friends?" you know, based on this.

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

There are idiots. Look around.