Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.