What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?