“A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.”

We’re always hardest on our own work, I guess.

A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.

They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.