“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasyanyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and c...”

“About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way ...”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them th...”

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”

“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like b...”

“It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be love...”

“He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on but you can't quite say what. You flick it whenever you get home an...”

“It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept...No matter how strange.”

“Strange world isn't it?”

“It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.”