As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself