"Not that human life was so highly valued. Keeping order appears to be the business of the authorities… But it’s the business of all, order. Freedom however, is nothing human. It’s something divine, for which our lives are too short to know it properly. If you’re searching for a link, think of Pericles. Order and freedom are linked by passion. We have to believe in both, we suffer from both. Both order and freedom. But human life is meaningful, rich, beautiful and filthy. It links everything. It mistreats freedom only… Wasting it, as if it was junk. People don’t like freedom, they are afraid of it. The strange thing is there is nothing to fear about freedom… Order on the other hand, can be very frightening."

"There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?"

"I have looked at you
in millions of ways and I
have loved you in each"

"You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination."