“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

“Learned some things in my life, Duchess, one of the most important, you find a good woman, you take care of her.” “Please”“This happens between us, Duchess, I’d take care of you.”“Don’t”“Die doin’ it,” he vowed.”

“People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?”

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”

“The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of them and their connections, you are so taken up by the chanciness of all's that happened and by all that could and will happen next.”

“The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.”