“This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion.”

“Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. Forhim, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place wheresomething can come out of nothing.”

“Nothing but magic is really like magic, when it comes right down to it.”

“There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.”

“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”

“Was the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with me grown into adulthod -- was that to replaced by nothing? The ghastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.”