“The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.”
“Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.”
“Life's a riddle, child," he said lightly, "but if you can feel the bumps on the road, it means you're alive and in the game. And that is a good place to be.”
“Each life contains as much meaning as all of history.”
“Because love is a riddle, as is life itself.”
“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”