“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”

“Trash is something you get rid of—or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.”

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

“I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too."

What?"

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.”

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

“In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater”

“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”