If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else

“Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the …”

“I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling…”

“When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it…”

“Now, though, that meadow scene is the first thing that comes back to me. [...] …”