She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.

It's never too late.

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

I'm going to make our country safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't know. People are pouring into our country and coming in from the Middle East and other places.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.