The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.