What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. - John Irving

Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you — and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

It seemed to Dr. Daruwalla that his story was the opposite of universal; his story was simply strange - the doctor himself was singularly foreign.