“And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.”

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”

“Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.”

“Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?”

“Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.”

“Democrats of the seventies and eighties are too tolerant, too open-minded, not feral enough. I want to be a ferocious liberal.”

“I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.”

“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

“The Purest kind of love is neither chemistry science nor like Newton's theory. Whoever falls on you like an apple and you fall in love with someone, no one knows when and how pure love comes in your life. Pure love comes in your life as a golden feeling and makes your life beautiful.”

“Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.”