The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.