...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river..

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss..

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate ….

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do..

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it..

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living..

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which….

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of an….

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself..

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love..

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you,….

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future..

Words never mean what we want them to mean..

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing..

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order..

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction..

Why I'm not where you are ....

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem..

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness..

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I….

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live..