“To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”

“It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. It would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness.”

“It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy.”