I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

‎"I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.