“There's information about everything from poetry topills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle,which we're walking down right now.”

“[From Old Mortality]The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.”

“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.”

“You and I are walking in the snow. "Why are you walking backwards?" I ask. You point in the direction we came from. "So they'll think that's where I'm going." You point to where we're going. "And that's where I'm from.”

“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”

“There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.”