Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.