“No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.”

“The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.”

“That’s all there is to life, you know. Fun things, we just need to remember to enjoy them or we waste it all.”

“How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.”

“Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothing. That's what scares women, you know.''I do know, and you needn't be scared. I feel something all right.''Promise me you'll always treat me as a person.''I promise.''Promises are so easily given.''I'll fulfill this one. Let me show you.'After a shaky start he was comfortably in the swing of it, having recognised he was on familiar ground after all. Experience had brought him to see that this kind of thing was nothing more than the levying of cock-tax, was reasonable and normal, in fact, even though some other parts of experience strongly suggested that what he had shelled out so far was only a down payment.”

“Dnt Think About Past , THat It Was Better Than Present ,Always Think About Future, to Make It Better Than Past ....”

“Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”