Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist... - Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough."

"Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often."

"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."

"That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough."

"Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten."