“I don't rememberlighting this cigaretteand I don't rememberif I'm here aloneor waiting for someone.”

“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”

“I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.”

“Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”

“I don't even hate books anymore.”

“I don't want to be a star, merely dying.”

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”