“Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.”

“Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce…”

“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”

“I have [drawings of] about twelve figures of diggers and men who are working in a potato field, and I wonder if I could not make something of it, you have still a few, for instance, a man who fills a bag with potatoes. Well, I do not know for sure, but sooner or later I shall accomplish that, for I looked at it so attentively this summer, and here in the dunes I could make a good study of the earth and the sky, and then boldly put in the figures.”

“There's the moon trying to look romantic
Moon's too old that's her trouble
Aren't we all?”

“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.”

“We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.”

“I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.”

“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”

“The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.”