We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

The world news might not be therapeutic.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.