I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.