“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with t...”

“Collective madness is called sanity ..”

“You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of m...”

“In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie...”

“Nothing in this world happens by chance.”

“Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. Th...”