Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.