"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."
"How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?"
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Source: Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.218, Knopf
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