“How poor are they that have no patients! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?'""Shakespeare isn't going to save you this time, Superman. Your time's run out."He scowled. "Perhaps I should have been studying The Taming of the Shrew!”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago”

“What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“Somehow I should have been able to say how strong and resilient you were, what a patient and abiding and bonding force, the softness that proved in the long run stronger than what it seemed to yield to...You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.”

“Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.”

“You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.'And how long is that going to take?'I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.'That could be a long time.'I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.”