“But I have my life, Im living it. Its twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, theres something there.”

“And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...”

“...there's nothing wrong with being a little hopeful. Who says you can't warm your frozen limbs in the faint heat of a flicker of hope?”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.”

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

“I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water.”

“.....The biggest mystery of nature is nature.”

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the mu...”

“how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find that river -imagine it, invent i...”

“Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.”

“I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”