“Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.”

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

“Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.”

“You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.”

“I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.”

“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”

“Ac­cord­ing to the agent, the se­cret to get­ting fa­mous is you just keep say­ing yes.”