“The Windowsill Over the Sink[...] begins to crowd around you with its clutter showing you that you can keep everything but promises.”

“Even if you are sinking,, look at the hand extended to rescue you,, if you have to accept it any way,, don't -at least- promise it you will stay together forever,, that after you regain your safety on the shore, you will be obliged to keep your stupid promise.”

“I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.”

“Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.”

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

“But loving someone isn't only making promises you know you can keep. That's just playing it safe. Where's the moral fiber in that? Loving someone is making promises you want to keep with all your heart, and then doing everything you can to make it happen, even if you fail sometimes. But the point is to try, because that's how you stretch yourself and learn you can do more than you thought you could. And maybe next time, you'll stretch a little farther.”