“I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.”
“I wish I could say I’m low maintenance, but I like some of the finer things in life…like a toothbrush.”
“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.”
“I wish...I wish I were dead...”“And what use would that be to anyone?”
“If I had three magic wishes, I’d use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something I already had.”
“People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.”