“Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.”

“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”

“Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.”

“As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”

“You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.”

“When it comes to the past, we all stack the deck.”

“Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that?”