Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.