Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.