“Why do we always ponder on what changes another person had undergone, yet never looking at the mirror to see our changes?”

“To be happy, you either change the world, or you change your thinking.”

“It may just be a little sentence from the little girl, but what matters is that she had done it; why can't I?”

“Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on.”

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

“We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes.”

“I think control is an illusion we build to protect ourselves, and the larger we try to make that circle, the weaker it gets. We can't control our own destinies, much less someone else's. And even the illusion is so fragile, any change can destroy it”