The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not
knowing what comes next.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.