“Tucker, please put him down," said Annie. "You're frightening Jackson.""He's not," said Jackson. "It's cool. I don't like that guy anyway. Punch him, Dad.”

“Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.”

“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything”

“Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But shed spent her hours in the dark wondering whether shed ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend...”

“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame...”

“Im still pretty sick about what Ive lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why Im not the best sleeper.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Does God get what God wants?Thats a good question. An interesting question. And its an important question that has given us much to discuss. But theres a better question. One that we actually can a...”

“Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differe...”

“How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?”