“What is your greatest regret?"Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.”

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

“No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you.”

“Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.”

“You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.”

“If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy and productive, why not? Why should people have to grow old and die?”

“In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”