"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."
- Daniel Keyes
"A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger."
"Punctuation, is? fun!"
"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."
"I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into ..."
"Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it a..."
"The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving..."
"A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it."
"Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."
"Thank God for books and music and things I can think about."