“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.”

“Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.”

“Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.”

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”