- “Nothing travels
faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which
obeys its own special laws.”
- “It can be very
dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper
training.”
- “Let the past hold
on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”
- “A common mistake
that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to
underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
- “You live and
learn. At any rate, you live.”
- “Every single
decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many
others. Most of them we don’t notice. Some we do.”
- “Sometimes if you
received an answer, the question might be taken away.”
- “You cannot see
what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because
you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you
see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it
replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you
yourself.”
- “Let the past hold
on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”
- “Protect me from
knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are
things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to
know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
- “The more rules,
the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It’s like
throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the
hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the
piece of paper above it that’s now been taken away and hidden. The graphite’s
not important. It’s just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see,
astrology’s nothing to do with astronomy. It’s just to do with people thinking
about people.”
- “She had what it
took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the
intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which
meant she didn’t care.”
- “Everybody has
their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you
care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy.”
- “He had got himself
a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.”
- “A beach house
isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.”
- “One of the
extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it’s prepared to put up
with living.”
- “He had a nasty
feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and
sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn.
At any rate, you live.”
- “We live in strange
times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own.”
- “There was only one
ambition that anyone on the planet ever had, and that was to leave.”
- “The major
difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly
go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it
usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”
