“...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“Oh,” he said. “I see.” But he did not see, exactly, though he believed that he could have been wrong and that she was right. And so a year later she talked to him suddenly of marriage and escape in the same words, he was not surprised, not hurt. He just thought quietly, ‘So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too’, thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

“Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling.Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.”

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”