“The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks or something tells it that the remembering can be handled.”

“And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.”

“Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.”

“There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running unless it is a woman.”

“When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.”

“Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.”

“This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it take...”

“He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.”

“And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that...”

“Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.”

“Sports can't be run by governments.”

“You can't just let nature run wild.”