“Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.”

“Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!”

“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“And that's when I realized that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.”

“Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep.”

“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself”

“You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!”

“It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.”

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate”