“We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.”

“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by "bones.”

“We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.”

“When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.”

“I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.”

“We don't choose the times we're born in, he says. That's the business of the stars. The only choice we got is what we do while we're here. To make it mean somethin.”