“Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”

“That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.”

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”

“Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.”

“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”