“Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans”

“I don't subscribe to any religion so it didn't matter to me if I prayed in a shrine, temple, or church. Butbe cause I was asking for so much I assumed Buddha and the Christian God wouldn't even listen”

“All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.”

“Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character”

“I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me”

“I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.”

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”

“Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cio non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanit dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarr dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.”

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”