“He knew that hed known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imag...”

“Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.”

“The advice he reads in Ann Landers good advice as long as you dont need it, perfectly sensible as long as you dont have any use for it.”

“Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what weve got.”

“However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.”

“The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”