“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”