“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”

“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”

“Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.”

“I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.”

“I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.”

“It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. – I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”

“I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.”

“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”

“I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”