“'Don't compromise yourself - you are all you've got.”
“When you know that you don't know, you've got to read”
“I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.”
“Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress?”
“Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.”