“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”

“I want not to panic. I want to be comfortable in my body and my life. I don't want to keep thinking that I don't belong here, that I have ended up on the wrong planet, completely alienated.”

“If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.”

“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”

“No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.”

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

“I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.”

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”

“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”