“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”

“There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.”

“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”

“It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.”

“The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.”

“You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.”