“The Bat Phone to the Universe," some kind of Iva-only, open-round-the-clock special channel to the divine.”

“Love is not some kind of a game, it is special and should be taken care of because it's the only thing that accepts you for who you are.”

“There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver.”

“It doesn't happen like this! Everybody, you put him in a death trap, he pulls something outta his utility belt and he's away. Same bat time, same bat channel.”

“In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.”

“We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.”