I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

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.

When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.