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

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.