"Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way." (79)
How long could he watch the tides flood in and flow out without his remembering, as anyone might in a sea-gazing reverie, that life had been given to him, as to all, randomly, fortuitously, and but once, and for no known or knowable reason? (125)
Old age isn't a battle, old age is a massacre. (156)