“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
“Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.”
“You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the now.”
“For each person there is a sentence, a series of words, which has the power to destroy them.”
“In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already gone from us.”
“Through love we feel we are greater than we know.”
“He has created a musical language that is the acoustic door to the unknown. Like an ever ascending score that never reached to the heavens.”
“The pact of timelessness between the two of us was ended, and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.”