Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.