“It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.”
“Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk”
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.”
“I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.”
“friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.”
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”