“Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?”

“Love must be shared, or else it is just madness.”

“Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.”

“Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.”

“Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face.”

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

“We're all frightened. We go through life like little children. Every single one of us pretending to be an adult. All you can really do is find someone to be with who's less scared than you are.”