“Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich”

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.”

“I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the sky the clouds. I look up, through the trees, into the sky. The clouds lose tufts of whiteness as the breeze dishevels them. If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever; if this moment could stay for ever.”

“But could you just... stay for tonight?”

“So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.”

“If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too”