Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

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

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.