“It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.”

“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”

“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”

“Well, Plato's cave is full of freaks
Demanding refunds for the things they've seen
I wish they could believe
In all the things that never made the screen”

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”

“Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.”

“Experience is the best legacy men could possess and never desert in life.”

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”

“If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.”