“In the great design of fate, there are no accidents.”

“And do I still have that look?" he asked."Yes just there," she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away.”

“I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.”

“Everything changes when a man becomes purple”

“He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention. How you said something could be more important than what you said.”

“Life is like a book. There are exciting parts, boring parts, happy parts, and sad parts, but at some time pages get fewer and fewer until it has ended.”

“One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.”