When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

The future is always here in the past

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.

I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.