Getting stabbed with a knife is a trauma for the whole body, his leg was probably the part that healed quickest, it was other parts of Ted that were limping.

Tomas Transtromer: “Don’t be ashamed to be a human being—be proud! Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly. You’ll never be complete, and that’s as it should be.”

Vincent van Gogh wrote: ‘I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.’ ”

“Picasso said it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a whole lifetime to learn to paint like a child.”

on vacation from work, and that was the worst. The most dangerous thing you can give evil is free time,

The only thing we can take for granted is that everyone we have ever met and everyone we have ever known and everyone we have ever loved will die. So how great must our imaginations be for us to even summon up the enthusiasm to get out of bed each morning?

My mother and my father, who always made sure I had books in my hands and food on my table.

Children aren’t responsible for their parents’ happiness, but they still try.

It’s a funny thing. The person we fall in love with, we hardly ever call by their name. Because it’s somehow just so obvious that it’s you I’m talking to, that it’s you I’m always thinking of. Who else?