“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”

“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to ...”

“A real relationship is two-way.”

“Its the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. Its the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He know...”

“Theres no such thing as ruining your life. Lifes a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personall...”

“Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that we want to sell them something--"Hey? What do you want? Money? Direction...”

“Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”