“I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.”

“Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!”

“‎''Generally, the rain is the thing which makes everything in my life nicer than it is. Love, sleep, long walks with beloved... I’m just wondering, why it’s not raining anytime when I have dinner with my mother… ”

“I want to know--or understand something. I've been sick my whole life. What is the point of being alive if I never get to live?”

“If we had fooled her last night, I would have considered my life at a satisfactory end, with all debts paid. I would have wound up on skid row, or maybe I would have been a suicide." He shrugged and smiled sadly. "Now," he said, "if I'm ever going to square things with her, I've got to believe in a Heaven, I've got to believe she can look down and see me, and I've got to be a big success for her to see”

“I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot.”