"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw"
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
"be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you"
"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"
"when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns"