“I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.”

“It isn't what happens its how you deal with it.”

“What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.”

“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.”

“It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim”

“You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself.”

“Kolchak nodded, 'Right, because that would make sense." He took off his hat and crumpled it against his hip. 'When I lived in Seattle, I met a man who had been killing people for a hundred years easily. I nearly got arrested painting on his portrait in the bank he owned, just to match his face to the hundred-year-old shot I had of him with a beard. It's possible.' 'Why didn't you just take a picture of the painting and scribble on the picture?' 'It was a gesture,' Kolchak wrung his hands, 'and anyway that's not the point.' ("Wet Dog of Galveston")”