"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to a stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
"I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."
"I knew - though I didn't recognise the fact - that I wasn't alright."
"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
"Those even who have done the greatest things, were not always perhaps the greatest men."
"Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are."
"You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?"
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."