“....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.”

“...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]...”

“Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.”

“But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.”

“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”

“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?”

“As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.”