“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.”

“If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.”

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's...you.”

“There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.”

“The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.”

“The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.”