Pete Wentz Quotes

What television gets to do, and there's a reason why 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' works as well as it does, is that it deals with the relationships. It deals with the very small, interpersonal ways that people both love and hate each other.

I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.

Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited.

I really like to meet people, but only when I have the energy for it.

People - I always have energy for people.

Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.

My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.

What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.