“The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.”
“Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed me and the time after. And there is now.”
“Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.”
“After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.”
“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.”