Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.