“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”

“No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.”

“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.”

“...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...”

“If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.”

“All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?”