“Der Weise nimmt seine Zuflucht zu den Schriften der Alten und lernt daraus nichts als Wortklauberei. Der Tor hingegen rückt den Problemen zu Leibe und geht das Wagnis, sich mit ihnen auseinanderzusetzen, ein und gewinnt dadurch – wenn ich mich nicht täusche – die wahre Klugheit.”

“We would never call inexplicable little insights ‘hunches,’ for fear of drawing the universe’s attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

“Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”

“A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.”

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

“The you must be there for the I to find itself. Trust in you gives me trust in myself. In the encounter between the you and the I, faith is born. I am so truly I because I have faith in you. Only the I that comes about through faith can have faith.”

“We are more than our traumaWe are not our diagnosisWe are more than the worst thingsthat have ever happened to us”

“And if you say that’s because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I’m disowning all three of you.”

“No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”

“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

“Love is the most valuable currency in life. Money can buy you things, but only love can buy you happiness.”