“No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.”

“Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.”

“She loves me-she just doesn't know it yet.”

“In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.”

“Love is not a feeling.  It's an ability.”

“Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.”

“A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.”