“Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.”

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”

“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”

“... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...”

“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques in manufacturing goods, the management of a home. That is what most of you will be doing anyway. We read these because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them, in their problems. And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves…”