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.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.