“Tommy Gnosis: What is that?Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with.”

“I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!”

“you dont know what you got till its gone”

“It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?”

“Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.”

“What happend to her? To Miranda?'Ulysses shrugged. 'What happens to most children. She got sick, and never got better.''And your wife?''The same.''But you said you were married,' said Will, glancing down at Ulysses's ring, smooth and lustrous in the half-light.'I'll always be married. But it'll be the next world when I see her again.”

“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”