“Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.”

“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”

“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”

“It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....”

“A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.”

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”

“Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.”