True love always happens in a flash.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.