Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.