“The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.”

“This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.”

“The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight.”

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

“The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.”

“Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.”

“It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened.”