“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?”

“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”

“Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.”

“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.”

“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.”

“I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.”