“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.”

“Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.”

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

“Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.”

“I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.”