Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.