“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”

“Well, personally, I wouldn't like to be a food, because I wouldn't want to be eaten.”

“Fifteen minutes with you Well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were virtually dead And they were so wrongFifteen minutes with you Oh, well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were easily led And they were half-right”

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said."Why?""Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

“if I were the Moor I wouldn't want to be Iago.”

“To be afraid is the condition of loving knowledge. Were I not dying of fear, I'd not know how to exist myself, I wouldn't get the notices of existence, I wouldn't record with delight the miniscule passage of a blue tit, its wing dipped in gold on the dusk. Were I not dying of sorrow I wouldn't with nostalgia be present at the creation of the world, the squirrel nuptials this morning I wouldn't care. Creatures are born to a backdrop of adieux.”