"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later."

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"In every parting there is an image of death."

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws."