What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.