“It's just not that easy answer you want wrapped up in a pretty, little bow. Nothing real ever is, but that doesn't mean it's hopeless.”

“What if I'd been wrong all this time? I'd been so angry that God didn't fit the description I wanted him to fit.”

“People lie to themselves all the time. If they lie to themselves, how can you expect them not to lie to you?”

“When it feels like it's love All the stars lift you up Well, to place you high above On top of the world I'm just glad that I found you”

“It's your bone structure, contemplates Erin, that's what makes you pretty. It's the scars that make you memorable.”

“Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.”

“It's great to be alive, isn't it? Especially when you consider the alternative.”