“When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them.”

“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”

“The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.”

“If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!”

“...if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door to a shared toilet - if this one, most essential freedom was taken away from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead. ”

“When you care about situations or people, you're hopeful that things will get better. When you worry about them, you're afraid they won't.”