What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.