I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She skied recklessly. While Sylvia's rabid perfectionism was very real, she was far from the good-girl persona she worked so hard to cultivate.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

- Mrzim sve Å¡to je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, prepunjen život, da menjam ovaj svet.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?