She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

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.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.