"Had I done anything significant during my thirty-year existence? Had I spent time with the people I really wanted to spend time with? Had I said all that needed to be said to the people who mattered?"
"Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by rules and routines--despite knowing that costs them their freedom."
"My life was over and I had no one who mattered enough for me to call. I had lived alongside people and created so many links, but they were ultimately all so tenuous. It's really deppressing—too deppressing—to realize something like that at the end of your life."