“The scene is very Sopranos meets Rent.”
“A couple of inches up and right and he would have been a soprano.”
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
“Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.”
“..he felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words, surely the most beautiful words written or said: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.”
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”