"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."
"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
"In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene."
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."