There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

It takes One... to know One...

Truth exists only lies are invented.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.

I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

Maybe I am a little cocky. Maybe it's something I need to work on.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.