I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be...

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.