...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

People are only mean when they are threatened.