I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize..

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off..

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importan….

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade..

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting..

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing ….

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away..

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo….

Killing time is not an easy job..

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action..

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart..

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope..

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die..

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it..

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories..

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then withe….

What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-livi….

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you..

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I….

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart..