“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

“Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.”

“Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.”

“We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness”

“And I wanted that - to come first in somebody's life. Isn't that what we all want?”

“Two thousand years ago the night sky looked completely different, and so when you get right down to it, the Greek conceptions of star signs as related to birth dates are grossly inaccurate for today's day and age. It's called the Line of Procession: back then the sun didn't set in Taurus, but in Gemini. A September 24 birthday didn't mean you were a Libra, but a Virgo. And there was a thirteenth zodiac constellation, Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer, which rose between Sagittarius and Scorpio for only four days.The reason it's all off kilter? The earth's axis wobbles. Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”