“..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.”

“We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.”

“Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.”

“When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them.”

“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”

“When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.”

“We who are profoundly joined in soul can only but heal the ruptures of the cosmos.”