“[Life] has been passing since the day he was born, and everything he puts off, chooses not to do or say because he is hoarding experience for his real, adult life isn't a thing safeguarded but a tr...”

“Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.”

“The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never ...”

“One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.”

“The old are a regular subject for sympathy.”

“Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.”

“Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.”

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”

“I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.”