“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”

“Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.”

“Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.”

“He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere”

“We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”