"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Dreams are necessary to life."
"Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live."
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."