“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”

“The backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.”

“Spies have years of training and experience. I had half an hour of panic and a pig.”

“Regarding life, it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us. It is by means of experience that we develop and not through our imagination. Imagination is nothing. Explanation is nothing. One can only experience and somehow describe--with, in Camus's phrase, lucid indifference. At the same time, experience is fundamentally illusory. When one is experiencing emotional pain or grief, one feels that everything that happens in life is unreal. And this is a right understanding of life.”

“There are alot of people hurting deep inside from experiences in life. Be strong and keep the faith. Even if it's like a flame in the dark.”

“desires,” I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There’s an element of passion in the experience of desire”