They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.