1. “The greatest wisdom doesn’t know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.”
2. “When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”
3. “What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.”
4. “Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.”
5. “Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.”
6. “Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
7. “The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.”
8. “Things which do not grow and change ae dead things.”
9. “We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
10. “We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.”
11. ‘We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.”
12. “What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.”
13. “The universe is transformation .”
14. “Decide first what is authentic, then go after it with all your heart.”
15. “I love statistics because they place what happens to a scrap of humanity, like me, on a worldwide scale.”
16. “I haver never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence shadowy caricature and dark jokes.”
17. “I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged and traveled on.”
18. “I was in love with the hole world all all that lived in its rainy arms.”
19. “This is how the world ends, I think, everything crazy yet people doing normal things.”
20. “Small bookstores have the romance of doomed intimate spaces about to be erased by unfettered capitalism.”
