I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.