“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

“Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:”

“The right lifestyle is something that is worn, not discussed. Money, fame, and looks, though helpful, are not required. It is, rather, something that screams: Ladies, abandon your boring, mundane, unfulfilled lives and step into my exciting world, full of interesting people, new experiences, good times, easy living, and dreams fulfilled.”

“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.”

“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.”

“Love'--romantic love, anyway--was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.”