“I try to pull myself together and pick up the scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces of me lying all around. This is a first, I think.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars… etc. - is sure to be noticed.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com