“As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.”

“At the beginning he’d thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27”

“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.”

“In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.”

“The worst punishment for immortal beings isimmortality revocation thus fall into lower life.”

“There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.”