"As we get older, events of even a small scale take on larger significance. The heart becomes less malleable, as hope, that strange fire, drains from it. And then as apathy sets in, enthusiasm to stroke the dying embers back to flame wanes. Perhaps this is how cynicism, disguised as experience, is born."

"The lager question for you is this: what is the end point of, i.e., the meaning in, all human experience?"

"That we have been given a gift to see and feel this world, and irrespective of the suffering that must be endured, this is enough. The rest is always summed up the easeful sleep of death"