“I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.”

“I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.”

“And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.”

“I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.”

“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”

“Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.”

“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be ”