“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...”

“What to do with the past? There was so much of it.”

“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.”

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

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

“Advice," Doa Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at sev...”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

“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.”