Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish, ” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.