It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.