“If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.”

“People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway”

“I think things happen between people for a reason.”

“People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.”

“It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.”

“Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.”

“Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much.”