I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.

I am going to be murdered.It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.

This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!

The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

Hope – that silly, stupid creature that lived within me, no matter how often I tried to beat it to death – lifted its nose and sniffed at the air.

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

Russians don't complain, usually.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.