“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

“Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?”

“One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.”