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

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

“Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.”

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

“We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.”

“His dreams were clear blue”

“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.”