“Far as I'm concerned, they're all still here, like a lot of dear little ghosts.”

“You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.”

“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.”

“So now we are young still but a better sort of young.”

“And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it”

“It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be?”

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”