“Karma is everything that’s happened to you up to this point. You have to let everything go – especially the “bad things”, that’s where the work is.”

“Do whatever you have to do that’s right in front you. Let everything else go. That’s concentration.”

“Everything that’s happened to you up to this point in your life is all nostalgia of equal intensity. We’re the ones who imbue the nostalgia with emotion.”

“You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.”

“And I think that’s what growing up is all about, where you go, okay, this is it, this is about love-relationships are a disaster, everything is really screwed up, things don’t work out, people get divorces, I may not even like everything there is to like about myself—love anyway. Live anyway. Choose to be a part of this anyway.”

“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”