Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.