“What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.”

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”

“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.”

“Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.”

“Nothing seems to last. But the bullet. The bullet is constant. The bullet is always there. You wait in line, that's all. And when it's your turn to ride the bullet, maybe you ride, maybe you run. Either way it comes to the same thing. Fun is fun. And done is done”