“Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.”

“If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.”

“You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality.”

“I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.”

“Death comes and takes you away and there is nothing you can do.”

“I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now.”

“I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for someone. Those who are alive remember life, not death. And when you are dead nothing happens. Death is nothing.”