“You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.”

“Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.”

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

“You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.”

“That's a tarantula,' he said. 'You got to watch out for them suckers. They can jump four feet. If they get you, you go crazy. It's a special kind of poison'This I didn't believe. I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the week, don't we?”

“You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.”

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”