“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”

“Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.”

“Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.”

“Sometimes life is just one big bucket of rotting cocks.”

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”

“You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...”

“In a flashback, we hear Holly's mother summing up her life in a conversation with her husband, Wylie: "My life is one big mistake," she said. "No, it's not," he said. "It's a series of small mistakes.”