"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

"It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything."

"Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction."

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

"Water generally flows downhill in this area."

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

"Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live."

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."

"A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend-and he's a priest."