“I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.”

“I'll drop you back to test driver so fast it will make your bra snap.”

“Let's see if your right foot is as fearless as your mouth.”

“Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?”

“Love is hard. We try to love one another. But generally the quality and quantity of our love for one another is found wanting, because we find it difficult, if not impossible, to look beyond those things that are ugly and unlovable in those we try to love. Even though the things that are ugly and unlovable in ourselves are the very things that cause us to cry out for love.”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation, and he had a lot of ground to cover because my liberal arts education had skirted the issue for 4 years. I was just waiting for them to call my name so I could go up, collect my diploma, fold it into a paper hat, and start flipping burgers at McDonalds.”