“A dream is a vision of the future, in light of the past, tainted by imagination.”

“Linus closes his eyes and puts his arms out at his sides. "Look to this day. For it is life. The very life of life." I stand beside him. Quiet. He continues. "It its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The splendor of beauty, the bliss of growth, the glory of action. Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope." He opens his eyes and looks at me. "It's an ancient Sufi text." He smiles. "My mantra." He folds his paper, bats me over the head with it and walks away.”

“It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.”

“I've learned enough this year to know that life may surprise you, but not usually in the ways you imagine.”

“Dali dreamed of Hitler as a white-skinned girl- impossibly pale, luminous and lifeless as the moon.”

“There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.”

“In the evening when the light is dim, I hide in bed and collect the silhouettes of reasoning which silently run across my limbs.”