In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

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