“I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.”

“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”

“Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.”

“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.”

“You try to cope with the mass audience, but in fact you are not doing something for them—I would be fighting with myself. I thought, I don’t have to make big films, I can make small films that I can be happy with. I can find my own audience.”

“I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.”

“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget… So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.”

“I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.”

“Solipsism,” said Felise. “I thought that too, for a while, but it was so obvious that my cat didn’t think so, didn’t think I was the only thing in the universe, that I decided it wasn’t true.”

“"I feel great," I said, trying to decide how I did feel.”