...chuck-full of error, masturbation and Jesus.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.

Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world

They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Ah, Kerry. You've found your heart. Who is she?" ... "A healer, but she's... gone.