“I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.”

“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists; it needs the warmhearted, the hardhearted, the coldhearted, and the weakhearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under which circumstances, and it needs those who can capture the passing impression of cherry blossoms in a fourteen-syllable poem or devote twenty-five pages to the dissection of a small boy's feelings as he lies in bed in the dark waiting for his mother to kiss him goodnight...”

“I have lost too much sleep, but I'm gonna find it.”

“I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.”

“That's a pretty serious club, requiring tattoos. I thought only math club did that. - Jayke to Amber-”

“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

“When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.”