We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.