I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, “You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!

Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.

There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.