I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering