Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.