“Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.”

“It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.”

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

“Stop fussing, honey. It won't be the first time James has seen a man's stomach."It's not the first time I've seen that one, thought James.”

“That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.”

“And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”