To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you’re here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.