I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

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.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

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

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.