I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.

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

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

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.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

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.