“Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.”

“We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.”

“In the evening when the light is dim, I hide in bed and collect the silhouettes of reasoning which silently run across my limbs.”

“Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.”

“And memory insists on piningFor places it never went,As if life would be happierJust by being different.”

“I'm turning fifty, and it is just now dawning on me that I have limited time," Nash said. "No kidding. I always felt my life was circumscribed by the finite terms, you know? There is a whole world of things I missed out on and will never experience. Whatever I have done, there is an endless amount I have not done. Do you know what that tells me?"..."It tells me it is not meant to be this all-encompassing journey. It is not meant to be catholic or encyclopedic. By now I have carved some grooves in this life. A few. What I need to do is hunker down and make those grooves deep and indelible.”

“Some things you can fix, and some things you can’t. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.”