“Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”

“Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty."
-Percy”

“[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place."”

“When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”

“"If you stand behind a wall, you woudn't be able to see through it so as when you distance yourself from a pit you can't determine it's depth Just get there".”

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”

“… And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.”

“A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.”