“No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...”

“He’s lived the life he’s lived. He’s loved the woman he’s loved. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on this earth, and that’s all right by him.”

“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.”

“No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.”