“Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.”

“My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.”

“Dear God,how can I live a vanilla life when I'm a strawberry girl?”

“We see that substance addictions are only one specific form of blind attachment to harmful ways of being, yet we condemn the addict's stubborn refusal to give up something deleterious to his life or to the life of others. Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict, when as a social collective, we share the same blindness and engage in the same rationalizations?”

“It is a remarkable fact that we must die, and yet we live as if we were to live forever.”

“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”