But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.