“From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.”

“You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.”

“You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.”

“books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more personal, more intimate-unlike movies, say, the world you experience while reading a book has been lived and envisioned entirely from the INSIDE, and its contours are yours alone.”

“Half the world hatesWhat half the world does every dayHalf the world waitsWhile half gets on with it anyway”

“From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.”

“I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea.”