“what is it she knows/and I have forgotten/that waiting in line/is an opportunity to dance”

“the grand canyon/this is where Eve bit the apple/now you know why”

“No/I did not stay awake/for the meteor shower/but I did/leave my window open”

“Its Batteries! I just know it!”

“Baby, I don't need an excuse to cuff you. I just need the opportunity.”

“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.”

“A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?”