“If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.”

“If you think your desires are selfish or cruel, hate yourself. If you think the world unjust, then hate your god.”

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”

“Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.”

“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.”