“You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.”
“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”
“frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
“You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.”
“Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”