“The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.”

“You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.”

“Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.”

“I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again....”

“You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope.”

“Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling you give the line that the audience wants ...”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”

“If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.”

“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”

“We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge.”