Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.