“Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]”

“I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”

“Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.”

“Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?”

“And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”

“The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.”

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”