“What's nurtured slowly grows well.”

“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”

“Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.”

“Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It's got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone's got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger each year.”

“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?”

“It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.”

“When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.”