“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

“If you don't need it, then
it is useless to be compassionate.
If it's important then
it will probably be followed with pain.
Loneliness that you feel with someone is worse
than one you feel
alone.”

“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”

“Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.”

“And if You look, You look through Me. And when You talk, You talk at Me. And when I touch You, You don't feel anything”

“I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”

“I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”

“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”

“...when you're on your pilgrimage, you don't even need to know where you're going. You just have to know when you're off your path.”