“He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.”

“If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!”

“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.”

“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!”

“LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!”

“He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”