It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.

„It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.” (p 114)