“And would it have been worth it, after all,Would it have been worth while,After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -”

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.”

“They're worth so much more after I'm a goner and maybe then you'll hear the words i been singing. Funny when you're dead how people start listening”

“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.”

“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”

“There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.”