“Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'

'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.”

“But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.”

“Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.”

“If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip… Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…”

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

“Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.”

“Permanence:
Just because they die, she said, doesn't mean they go away.”

“Structure is a primary element of experience and not something that is added by the mind. In this respect, it can be said that the techniques of understanding call for a drastic revision of the usual modes of thought that treat being and understanding as independent or at least as separable from one another.”

“But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening… doesn't mean it won't.”