“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”

“In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.”

“Summer was over. Of course you can't tell in Los Angeles.”

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”

“I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?”

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”