If you remember me, then I don’t care if everybody else forgets.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only a**holes do that.
You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it’s time to drink.
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
What makes us most normal is knowing that we’re not normal.
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for – and to do it so unconsciously.
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes.