“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”

“life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..”

“Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.”

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

“People change. I mean you barely know who you are when you enter, and you spend that time figuring out what you want from life, and who you want in it. The next thing you know, the people you always thought would be there, aren't. A nd the person you thought you could trust with everything, isn't the person you ever knew at all.”

“I smile sadly, in light of what came nextto think that I told herIf you can just hang on, things are bound to improveshe made me a liar, too--the woman who dug the holeI've been trying to write myself out ofever since”