So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do/ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue/ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean/ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Zebra mussels also take in everything, but some of the blue green algae, the zebra mussels don't want that, and they just pass it through.

There will come a time,'' I said, ''when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. [...]