“There is no distance greater than the thickness of a human skull."2000 Miles for Dinner, Marie Claire”

“Doubt is the hill that hope climbs. Without it our spirits atrophy."Better to be Hamlet than President George, Salon, 1/7, 2007”

“Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.”

“Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of NatureNature herself would watch unmovedif we destroyed the entire human raceI hate Naturethis passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-facethat can bear everythingthis goads us to greater and greater acts”

“Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.”

“Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep at more than a hundred miles an hour without decelerating.”

“Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.”