“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

“This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.”

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”

“Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”