“You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.”

“It doesn’t take much to make the daily round with one’s employer work smoothly. A couple of ‘yessirs’ when you know that ‘not on your life’ is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you’ve spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn’t take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I’ve ever considered giving”

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”

“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage(From LONE WOLF, p.50)”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

“I think you might have missed the right person, your true love, because you have spent your life looking too hard for him. You have a great capacity to love, Laura. Don’t run away from it. Use it. Stop wasting it. Throw yourself into it, and don’t be scared. I promise you, with all my heart, that you will never live a day when you regret it.”