I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

"There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself."

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

"In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots."