“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

“I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.”

“I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“...just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last”

“I'm thinking of you a lot, in the mornings, in the afternoons, in the evenings, at night, in the periods in between and just before and after - and also during.”