“There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.”

“Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.”

“People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.”

“Gen­tly, he leaned in and brushed his soft, gen­er­ous lips against mine. It was awe­some. I thought I might puke.”

“I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.”

“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”