At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid to us but it's full of empty space and atoms moving and we see it as solid because we need to because it helps us survive, right? Survival being our goal. You can extrapolate that to many other things.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do in our lives.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.