She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out."pg 364

You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be."pg 354

He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."pg 338

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Pink! My color! My love!

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.