Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.