“If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.”

“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.”

“You are a concert pianist. That was my life when I was twenty-two years old.”

“Men who had made five thousand, year before last, and ten thousand last year, were urging on nerve-yelping bodies and parched brains so that they might make twenty thousand this year; and the men who had broken down immediately after making their twenty thousand dollars were hustling to catch trains, to hustle through the vacations which the hustling doctors had ordered.”

“('My three year old daughter can do as much'.) Yes, it is true, but the difference is that I do it.”

“In my life I've been through plenty. when I was three years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.”

“The last days of my childhood were also the last days of the village.  I belonged to that generation which saw, by chance, the end of a thousand years' life.”

“Boyfriends? In my life I have had three. Three.”