the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.