"Life's no piece of cake, mind you,

but the recipe's your own to fool with." - Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World

Turned 26

"And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight--isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you're seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talk seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this." - Jonathan Franzen