How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing? - Anthony Doerr

None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.

Not-knowing is always more thrilling than knowing. Not-knowing is where hope and art and possibility and invention come from. It is not-knowing, that old, old thing, that allows everything to be renewed.

we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human