But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.