“Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.”

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

“He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.”

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

“To be an adult is to be alone.”

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”

“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”