Time is the school in which we learn

“Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we…”

“New people could be seen, by people like my grandfather, as indifferent to ever…”

“And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say…”

“Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the …”