“Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.”

“You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”

“As you walk through life, always walk toward the light, and the shadows of life will fall behind you.”

“Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.”

“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”

“The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.”