“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.”

“I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. ”

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

“I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.”

“All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.”