“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”

“When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.”

“Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.”

“Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.”

“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”

“The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.”

“...he felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.”