“The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.”
“We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.”
“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”
“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether | Thrown on fire--just | A little jump of flame, like grief, or | Like a penicillin that has lost its skill at killing | Off, it then is gone.”
“Standing up for what you believe in comes has a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying”
“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”