“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes insi...”

“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”

“All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.”

“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms success and failure had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to cre...”

“Youre a dreamer, boy, he said. Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, its nevergoing to be anywhere else. You have no ambitions, you dont give a damn about money, and youretoo much...”

“Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing people out of themselves, and it was easy to fall in with her, to feel comfortable in her presence....”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”