It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.

Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Don't let the government win.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.