People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.