“You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.”

“People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.”

“I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.”

“Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.”

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”