“How do you protect yourself from something you can't even see?”
“Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble.”
“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.”
“To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.”
“But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
“If you're writing a story and YOU can't wait to see how it all pans out, then you are doing something right.”