“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.”

“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

“He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on an open track. He knew every stop, every junction, every swamp along the way, and knew the exact point at which her conclusion would roll majestically into the station”

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”

“The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athward and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.”