“With the utmost love and attention the man who walks must study and observe every smallest living thing, be it a child, a dog, a fly, a butterfly, a sparrow, a worm, a flower, a man, a house, a tre...”

“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”

“I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they do...”

“God goes with thoughtless people.”

“I feel how little it concerns me, everything thats called "the world," and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.”

“cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada ms perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”