“Don't expect trouble.”

“Sometimes the bad guys don't win.”

“Good, because I don't understand anything at all.”

“Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.”

“Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.”

“Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.”

“Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?”