“I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.”
“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
“It wasn't that Ginger had messed me up. I realized that most guys would have been grateful. But she had taken some not small thing from me. Nadia was fifteen and she wanted to have sex. I wanted to do her this favor. Hoped that I wouldn't mess her up for life. We were all pretending we knew what we wanted to do with our bodies.”
“No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.”
“I want my life to have a purpose. Do you know what I mean?”
“I don't want to get what I want; but, what I need through what I want; but, everything still involves around what I want. Because what I want is what i need; and, what I need is what I want”