In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Belief that we know all & we are always right Leads to distance & silenceKeep learning & Keep Expressing....

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

Technology and Science is what you make it.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!