❝Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.❞

❝Don’t be so hard on yourself. Don’t put pressure on yourself. Life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.❞

❝Somewhere in his body—perhaps in the marrow of his bones—he could continue to feel her absence.❞

❝No matter how good things are, there will always be solitary nights you spend in your bedroom, in a car, or in a party full of your closest friends when it feels like the walls are caving in.❞

❝I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes… My world began to expand very rapidly… the reading habit had got me securely.❞

❝You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.❞

❝Live all you can: it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?❞

❝We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.❞

❝I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.❞

❝I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.❞