“He suddenly wonders if he's missed the really important things in Life in his search of really important things.”

“He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.”

“The really important thing is not to reject anything.”

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ”

“I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.”

“Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.”

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”