“Physics as we know it will be over in six months.”

“A manager will take six months to get to know his staff, but they will take only six days to get to know him”

“Six months of waiting. Six months of understanding the inner workings of faith and the outer spheres of the world. Six months of time: hundreds and millions of awakening seconds and sleeping minutes. Six months of aching stretched out like the Sahara: lickety-split, snippety-snip, jiggity-jig Six months of fading and blooming, stopping and starting. Six months of love: a breath, a deluge, an eternity; a single flake of snow.”

“We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average”