“And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.”

“He sighed. "Does it get tiring?" "What?" "Always thinking you're right." I smiled. "No, not really. It's other people not realizing I'm right that gets tiring.”

“Things'll get worse before they get better.”

“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”

“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”

“Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.”

“I'd rather live with a thing done poorly than do nothing and always wonder how things could have been.”

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...”