“The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.”

“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”

“Tears are one of the most meaningful liquid. Wanna know why? Because out of many liquid here in the world, only tears can explain the real meaning of pain”

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.”

“One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of its authors do not know even the titles and authors of today's learned works, but still they want to top these scholars with their knowledge of the year 6000.”