“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” — Vladimir Nabokov

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” — John Irving

“Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it; today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.” — Norman Schwarzkopf