“The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.”

“Googol?'' ''That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.”

“Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.”

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

“You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.”

“How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?”

“A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.”