“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”

“Do you think someone someone who'd sacrifice himself so easily, is worth as the same as the life someone so precious?In other words, you consider her an absolute fool who would try to protect a worthless trash as yourself.”

“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”

“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”

“Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That's still what you're worried about. That you'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you'll make a fool of yourself.”

“Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!”