I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I make them happy, that means sacrifice. I think you have to be prepared to sacrifice, and a lot of people just aren't willing to. You have to give up a piece of yourself. By doing that, you get a greater sense of who you are. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.