“Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was.”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”

“After All I've Done For you, you're lying. Wouldn't it be nice to tell the truth?”

“What is done in love is done well.”

“What men have done can still be done
And shall be done to-day.”

“What is well done is done soon enough.”

“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”