Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.
will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.
... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.