You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.