「This is who I am. Get used to it.」
「What would you be like if there was nobody else in the world? Who would you be if the only opinion that mattered was yours? Because if you want to be truly happy, you must be that person. You must search inside yourself for what is uniquely you. When you find it, polish it until it becomes your style. It's no good being a pig farmer for 30 years, looking back and saying, "I was meant to be a ballet dancer." By that time, pigs are your style.」
「If your happiness is entirely dependent on another's love, you will never turly be happy. If your love is valuable to you, it is because you give it. You must be ready to expect nothing in return. Once you accept this, your heart will never be broken again.」
「Beauty is in the eye of possessor. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.」
「It is my policy never to lie, never to defend. To recant would be to imply that I do not mean what I say. And I do.」
「Why is that people insist I should suffer, that I should be lonely, indeed I'm lonely, did I but know it. I am not.」
「I never understand people who say, "I felt I'd been used." Because think of the people who've never been used. Life's much harder for them.」
「For people like me, the dream is to win and to keep the love of a great dark man. A real man. The essence of a real man is that he dose not fall in love with his own sex. It's impossible.」
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「There is no great dark man. Trust me. I looked. It's not his rejection we have to fear. It's his non-existence. We see him invoked everwhere, but he is a fantasy, and a damaging fantasy at that. The great dark man is not the solution to your problem, he's causing it, and he could well be the death of you.」
「My body and I divorced years ago. But we're still forced to live together.」
「People ask me what I would like played at my funeral. They imagine that we can look down from the cloud and count the number of mourners at our wake. And we won't. We'll be dead. When I die, I don't care what happens, to me or to the world.」
「Persisitence is your greatest weapon. It is in the nature of barriers that they fall. Do not seek to become like your opponents. You have the burden and the great joy of being outsiders. Every day you live is a kind of triumph. This you should cling onto. You should make no effort to try and join society. Stay right way you are. Give your name and serial number, and wait for society to form itself around you. Because it most certanly will. Neither look forward where there is doubt, nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside that you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.」
