“Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.”

“Keep moving forward...”

“You move because you are built for movement, because your heartbeat and respiration are involuntary. Though you feel the part of you that is always dying, the rest moves forward, squeezed between destiny and choice”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

“The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.”

“He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.”

“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.”