“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”

“When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.”

“But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.”

“No, it's just like when you're dead and you try to remember being alive, it'll be like thinking of winter on the hottest day of the year. You'll know it's true, but you won't really believe it.”

“For all your years prepare,And meet them ever alike;When you are the anvil, bear--When you are the hammer, strike.”

“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”