“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.”
“The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”
“The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.”
“Maybe she'd just say she ran into a door; that seemed infinitely more plausible than the truth.”
“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...”
“It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker”