Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

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.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

When the companies started making made-for-TV movies, people thought it was a fluke. Who would watch that? Because it's in your TV screen and not in a theater. Remember that?

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.