“God send's you what you need you'll see, it come out in the wash.”

“To bend, sometimes it's more important to care about somebody than to obey the letter of a rule.”

“Creativity comes with being human, it is the power to think new, to imagine, to see a metaphor....All you need is an open mind”

“It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?”

“If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.”

“You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.”

“Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.”