“Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.”

“When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.”

“You are off on a winding and difficult road, which you conceive to be wide and straight, an Autobahn you can travel at your ease. Is it any use for me to tell you that all you believe real is illusion? I don't know whether you'll listen, or ignore it. You only want to know about your path, your Autobahn.”

“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.”

“We’re like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it.When she walked away, and out of the door, it was like she was leaving forever.”

“It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help?I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?”