“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”

“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”

“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied”

“I love revisionsWe cant go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”

“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”