Page 107: "Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk."
Page 113: "Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also- if this isn't too grand a world - our tragedy."
Page 113: "Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure."
Page 114: "Start with the notion that yours int he sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary."
I remember reading this book a bit more than the previous book - however, not enough to make any remarks about it. :(
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