“There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.”
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.”
“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”
“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
“When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward”
“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do.”