“Can't have it" from Goodfellas”

“Showing off" The Grifters”

“Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.”

“I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.”

“If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.”

“War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.”

“She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.”