“All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.”

“There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.”

“I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.”

“Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.”

“You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.”

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”

“You never know which people will affect your life.”