Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

You see in others who you are.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.