“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”

“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”

“She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.”

“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”