“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one.”
— Wallace Stegner in Angle of Repose.
“The problem is it takes most of us most of our lives to understand what we should have known from the beginning.”
— Leon Uris in Trinity.
“Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing’s worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.”
— Richard Ford in Independence Day.
Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty): “Everybody’d be nice to you if they knew you were dying.”
Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro): “Everybody knows everybody is dying. That’s why people are as good as they are.”
— Bang the Drum Slowly