“Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.”

“Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

“I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.”

“There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney catalog to see people in their underwear. Now it's like the national pastime, hanging out in your underwear. I don't see why they have to pay anyone to model it.”