“All it takes is instinct.”

“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”

“Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.”

“The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

“No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.”

“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”

“The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love -- love is a crisis of the soul.”