“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”

“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.”

“If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?”

“I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.”

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”

“I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.”

“Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.”

“It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.”

“What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.”