“To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.”

“You only confuse hope with power once in life.”

“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.”

“There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.”

“You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.”

“Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.”

“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”

“Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) t...”

“But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to p...”

“...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”

“Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?”

“I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”