"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once."
"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
"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."
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."