
"'Frank, we don't amount to much. I don't know why we go to the trouble of having opinions,' Henry says.
'It puts off the empty moment. That's what I think.'"
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter. (London, Bloomsbury, 2006) 121.
‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’