“You see, real freedom is something tangible- it's the American's birthright- but it is also something that can be taken away at a moment's notice.”

“Courage is accepting your fear and doing whatever needs to be done anyway. Cowards are people who can't face up to their fear and let it get the better of them. There's always a place for courage. There's always something that can be done. You might not see it right away. Sooner or later something comes to mind that can help you through it. You make up your mind that it's okay to be afraid and you are going to be all right. Then you do what has to be done. That's courage.”

“Can I ask you something?Boxers. Briefs exacerbate my claustrophobia.”

“Life is a constellation, the individual moments in our lives seem so pointless sometimes; but when you look at the whole picture, you can see that those little moments formed memories.”

“It's satisfying. It yields immediate results. Something is dirty. Then it's not.”

“It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.”

“That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?”