It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

These days I can't tell what I really feel.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Clever is as clever does.