For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

What a terrible thing life can be.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.