When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
We're afraid to be human because if we're human we might get hurt.
Are anybody's parents typical?
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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