"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to."

"As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it."

"When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want …"

"When you do the same thing over and over again, it gets to be nothing new. It gets to be like a ritual."

"I decided that I wasn't going to spend my life doing something I didn't want to do."