“The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.”

“Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of if onlys leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, ones final iteration of the ...”

“I dont care how smart you are. Youll never understand how little you really know until youve had a woman.”

“It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.”

“There is no such thing as unrequited love; the phrase ought to be stricken from the lexicon. Love is a thing shared, an intertwining of essential separateness into something not quite alone. There ...”

“I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“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.”