“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”

“This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that romantically practical Teuton who used to murmur to Pablo, between sleeping and waking, a sort of incantation that went like his: Sometimes you will find it and other times you won't find it and the times you don't find it are the times when you have got to be careful. Those are the times when you have got to remember that other times you will find it, not this time but the next time, or the time after that, and then you've got to be able to go home without it, yes, those times are the times when you have got to be able to go home without it, go home alone without it...”

“A man like that is someone to go out with—once—twice—three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?”

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

“And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...”

“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”