“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”

“Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you”

“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.”

“To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.”

“In the really hard cases you're choosing between the disastrous and the catastrophic, and it's hard to tell someone which one is which.”

“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”

“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”

“It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.”

“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”