It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.