“If you look over to see what the beautiful young woman sitting next to you is reading, and it turns out to be a book about angels, then you can with perfect justification refuse her entry into your life.”

“As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.”

“One of the odd things about living in an apartment was that you could walk out of someone's life but still have to wait for the elevator. (p.220)”

“On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.”

“Life without love isn't living and living without loving you haven't yet truthfully been alive!”

“He watched the aperture of the young women's lovely face close ever so slightly and felt a pang in his heart.”

“You cannot fulfill a purpose; it is like a guiding star on the horizon- forever pursued but never reached.”