“Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

“To every rule there is an exceptionand an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”

“There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.”