“The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.”

“You must be honest. If you cannot tell yourself what you want, you will never get it.”

“You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.”

“Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?"My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.”

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”