Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.