“All truths are easy to understand once they have been discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.”

“She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

“I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.”

“I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.”