“I sighed. It doesnt matter what we do. Money comes and goes. I shook my head. It doesnt matter and you know it doesnt.”

“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”

“I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.”

“There is nothing typical about my profession. Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. I dont want to talk about it any longer.”

“Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.”

“I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of f...”

“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.”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.”

“Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.”

“Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.”