Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.