“Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.”

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”

“Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”

“They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.”

“Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?”