“Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.”

“Perspective basically guarantees that there’s no such thing as a pure emotion. Every emotion is based on how sucky (or not) something is in relation to something else that has already happened. I realized that Hy and Marcus and my ankle wouldn’t be so huge if I had experienced a Hiroshima-size disaster.It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me will just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because Iknow how much worse things could be.”

“Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.”

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

“Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. ”

“I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.”