“I had to decide on the kind of life I wanted to live and live it.”
“No, I haven’t decided where to live yet.” He thought, I haven’t decided if I want to live yet.”
“Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
“I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.”
“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”
“I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.”