I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.