“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much”

“Somehow then you tell something that matters very much to you to people who don't care, their disinterest spoils things - makes the cheap.”

“When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.”

“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.”

“I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.”