“I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartmentall alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a ca...”

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

“Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.”

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”

“Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain...”

“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”