It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.