“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”

“We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.”

“The tightrope walk was an act of creation that seemed to stand in direct defiance to the act of destruction twenty-seven years later.About Let the Great World Spin”

“All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

“I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.”

“Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.”

“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.There is, I think, a fear of love.There is a fear of love.”