“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”

“Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.”

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”

“There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.”

“Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?”

“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”