“Love is very different from like, ... Like has reasons and logic,... it makes sense.”

“Everybody screws up, ... Remember that. The trick is to realize it and start fixing the screwup.”

“It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.”

“Make me remember what it feels like to be loved.”

“One of the differences between us was that Marc wanted very badly to climb the Eiger, while I wanted very badly only to have climbed the Eiger. Marc, understand, is at that age when the pituitary secretes an overabundance of those hormones that mask the subtler emotions, such as fear. He tends to confuse things like life-or-death climbing with fun.”

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”

“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”