“When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.”

“They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.”

“I don't have much to say to that. I mean, I have a lot to say, so I don't say anything.”

“Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving.""But they're dead," he says"Yeah. That means they don't have to remember anything."Elias shakes his head. "That means they can't ever love."I snort. "So they don't know loss.”

“We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers... one saying to the other: you don't know what you are talking about! The second one says: what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?”

“-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life?-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.”