“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”

“It takes a long time to grow young.”

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”

“My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”

“How does one keep from “growing old inside”? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are dispensable.”