Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"...people with nothing to declare carry the most."

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time."

"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped."