He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.