“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

“Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.”

“What happened?""During the kiss?""No, with you and Caroline.""Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.”

“What happens in the band room stays in the band room.”

“feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.”

“if you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all.”