For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

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.

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

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.