“Things do change and, unlike the Middle East and the traffic in Los Angeles, sometimes they can even get better.”

“Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better”

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“Not an agent kiss, not anything remotely resembling a peck-on-the-cheek kiss, but a let's-get-started kiss. One that even in hardened, love-tired Los Angeles had a better-than-even shot of producing a happy finish”

“And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.”

“If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.”