“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”

“I well understand why analysts demand high payment, for what can be more tedious than listening to another person recount his dreams?”

“I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.”

“[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.”

“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”

“Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.”