Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

He though does not always have faith.