People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby