“Love is a powerful painkiller.”

“I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.”

“It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.”

“I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.”

“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”

“Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?”

“I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.”