“...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.”

“...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”

“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

“...so i will greet you in a way all loved things are meant to be greeted with a tear in my heart and a poem in my eye.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”