“We've got secrets coming out our arses and you want to take them to a clairvoyant?”
“That's what writers do, Conroy, we wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That's how art works. It's never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It's the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We've got to be patient enough to wait for them.”
“I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)”
“We've got to get in to get out.”
“We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.”
“We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.”