She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.