“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.”

“Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?”

“What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.”

“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”

“Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work...”

“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”