As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.