People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-dec… - James Baldwin

Incontestably, alas, most people are not, in action, worth very much; and yet, every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they’ve become.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.