“But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.”

“They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds""But once you've been through that door, you can't just keep going through it over and over again...”

“You really can't go through life wanting to be liked. It's the hardest lesson to learn. Once you say, "Fuck it, I don't care," once you've got that attitude, then it's easy to relax, to talk, laugh, cry, whatever.”

“I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.”

“I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.”

“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people”