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

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

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

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

“Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest.For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that.Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.”

“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.”

“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.”