“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”
“We might come across nurseries of new born stars … For if there are new born stars there must also be stars of middle years. Aging stars. Dying stars.”
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”
“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”