“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.”

“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That’s why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren’t real.”

“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

“Make your life work instead of making life full of work.”

“It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")”

“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”

“I realized that there is nothing whatever outside of the life we have; that the "meaning of life" is nothing other than life itself, obstinately asserting itself against emptiness and nullity.”