All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.