“I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.”

“Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.”

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”

“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”

“Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”