“It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office.”

“Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.”

“The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.”

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.”

“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”

“It is not proven that Elizabeth's person equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time.”