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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”