“For a relationship to work, you really have to know the person you're involved with. Otherwise it's never going to last.”

“Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.”

“It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to.”

“You're good for me," I say. "The light to my shade.""Then you're the night to my day. A person needs both, you know.”

“My father was a very great man. I will never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.”

“It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.”

“If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.”