When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.