“Paranoid theorizing was too easy, too emotionally satisfying.”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.”

“I revealed too much too soon. I was emotionally slutty.”

“Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose—as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.”

“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”