“No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.”

“You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.”

“...but you live your life at the time you live it—you don’t have much of an overview when what’s happening to you is still happening.”

“I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”

“Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”