“How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.”

“One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.”

“One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!”

“The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.”

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!”

“Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.”