Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. - Cormac McCarthy

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

- I dont know what that means. Physics tries to draw a numerical picture of the world. I dont know that it actually explains anything. You cant illustrate the unknown. Whatever that might mean.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.