“If you're scared, do something.”

“How do you ever hold on to anybody?”

“She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.”

“Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.”

“The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.”

“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.”

“Youre probably wondering what the heck I mean by The Pillars of Your Life, right? Well this is simple. Its the things that make your life what it is. The things or people that make you, you. Theres...”

“That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then come...”

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, an...”

“Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow upto be treated like adults, to have freedom to choose. Then we get here and it turns out being an adult sucks. We pay the bills ...”

“And I still dont know what I would do next. I still dont know how to become an adult. But I know for sure that my parents would be proud of me, proud of their three daughters, no matter what path w...”

“They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself. It is not easy to raise...”

“In this case the time is not so important for me, the person asking for commitment is.”

“That single moment's intensity hasn't been matched in my life before or since. A woman I didn't know had chosen to accept me, in body and mind. Perhaps it is this instant that forms the basis of tr...”

“I do not care about power and wealth, father. I want to marry for love.You want to marry for love? The elder Valentino scoffed. Que mierda. Marrying for love is like adding extra picante to your me...”