That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yoursel... - Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one."

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

"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life."

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

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