Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.