People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

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.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.