But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

don’t tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve. if i speak of these things it’s because i have to— but i am not speaking to you.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

The clouds wept when my heart sand a song of sorrow

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.

Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.