It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.