Tommy Wallach

“People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.”

“Life isn't sugarcoated. Why should coffee be?”

“Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.”

“Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.”

“Exactly. The dots guy. I've always thought getting older was a bit like looking at those paintings. You're born, and that's when you're standing right up next to the canvas. Nothing makes any sense. There's just a lot of light and color. But as you get older, you begin to back away, and that's when the image starts to cohere. All those little spots of color turn into flowers, or people, or dogs. You gain perspective.”

“Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what he’d always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.”

“Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident”

“People don't like getting older, but they do like changing”

“When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.”