“Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.”

“It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.”

“In parallel with their ceaseless consumption of time, people would ceaselessly reproduce time that they had mentally adjusted.”

“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.”

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”

“You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die”