“It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.”

“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”

“It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.”

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

“Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.”

“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”

“She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.”