“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”

“Beauty isn't perfect. It's something to be felt and something to be breathed.”

“Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol.”

“He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I’d done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I’d done right.”

“Go ahead and laugh! If you don't laugh, you going to cry ~ so laugh!”

“How was God supposed to stop it? You're a free man, Alois. There are no invisible strings connecting you to God, directing your every move.'But if God is all-powerful, God could intervene. God could find a way.'And because God didn't intervene, it was all right.'Yes.'Too bad you don't believe in God, then. You've lost your excuse.'Bauer blinked. He looked away. 'Perhaps I do believe in God,' he said.Oh yes,' Dietrich said. 'God makes a convenient scapegoat. Or people always think God is absent when things are going bad for them. Things go better and God is back. Well, I want to live in the world as if there were no God. That is the only way God can truly be with any of us.”

“And what more can God do,' he asks, 'then to take on flesh and suffer every humiliation and every fear and every pain that humanity suffers? What more without destroying human freedom?”