“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”

“I love you anyway-even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life-I love you.”

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.”

“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”

“I still know in my heart that it is a Godless, dirty game; that love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth and is about the equivalent of people who stimulate themselves with dirty post cards-”

“Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”