[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.