That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.