Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

At least he never walked.

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.