Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.