“Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.”

“Only in drama does it end with the tragedy; in life it grinds on. Moanday, tearsday, happy days, right through to Shatterdays. And Again.”

“It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.”

“Memories. Weighty emptinesses. I live in a memory the size and shape of a house.”

“Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.”

“And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do.”

“Curiosity will not cause us to die, only lack of it will. For only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.”