“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”

“But don't go thinking that I'm critical of you, Anton, because really I'm not. Not a bit! It's just that you're not here. I'm alone and I'm frightened and you're not here. And you're not ever going to be here for me.”

“A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

“What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?”

“Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.”

“Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

“It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.”