You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift. It's giving birth to that kind of shared state. Probably.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.