“Are you leaving evidence that you appreciate today or are you only leaving evidence that you are scared of tomorrow?”

“You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof.”

“If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.”

“If the evidence says you’re wrong, you don’t have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.”

“I don't mind London being so attractive to the French, but what I don't want is for there to be a widening gap between the two where London is attractive and Paris less so. I want it to be self-evident that Paris is the place to be. If you leave for a professional opportunity, that is understandable, but to leave because you have the impression you can't succeed where you are, can't live in your life, that's a different matter.”

“You got through a day and wondered what your reward was. It soon became evident the prize was you got to withstand tomorrow too. You got through it, hour by long hour, but at the end you looked up without much expectation. You had begun the understand the score. Sure enough: today's prize was the same. Outwardly calm, but with a scream building like the sound of a long-forgotten steam engine in the back corner of a basement, you got through that tomorrow too, and a flat hardpan of further tomorrows after that. You got through enough of then to realize you'd been had, that there aren't tomorrows after all but the wretched stretch of an endless today. What can you do? Rebellion gets you nowhere.”

“The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”

“Be around those who are proud to have you, scared to lose you, fight for you, appreciate you, respect you, care for you and love you.”

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”

“You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.”