“I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.”
“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”
“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”
“I think it was the right move, but if I can be allowed a mediocre generalization, don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”
“Do not think that even with these trappings and this word known as 'modern' that our lives are so far removed from the lives of the peoples that lived in ancient times.”