“Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.”

“No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.”

“It's amazing when you think about it, all the possibilities, the things that might happen in this brief life if you're brave enough to try.”

“Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.”

“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”

“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.”