“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.”

“When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.”

“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”

“You know when we came out of the clinic, and we saw those flower beds that we hadn’t seen when we were walking in? That was so unexpected, I think it made me delirious somehow. And then it seemed like if we just threw off all restraints and talked wildly and ate wildly and shopped wildly, it would just turn up the delirium, and make it even better, or permanent somehow...”

“Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges.”

“Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.”

“I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.”