Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

Children see magic because they look for it.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.