“Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.”

“I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.”

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...”

“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.”

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”

“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”