1. “He comes in here every other night. He has his favorite drink, and his favourite table, with his favorite dancer. Sometimes he has to wait for her, and sometimes she’s waiting for him, to protect him. She’s his angel.”
2. “I wish that one day you will have a son like you.”
3. “You have an accent in both languages. Who was your teacher? Jean Chretien?”
4. “After being bombarded endlessly by road safety propaganda, almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident.”
5. “It’s forty-two pounds of polished granite, bevelled on the belly and a handle a human being can hold. And it may have no practical purpose in itself but it is a repository of human possibility and if it’s handled just right, it will exact the kind of poetry…”
6. “Remember me doctor? I was dying when you had your way with me. You made me give up my secrets when I was feeling particularly vunerable…”
7. “We’re both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don’t understand.”
8. “You know, you Irish cops are perking up. That’s two sound theories in one day, neither of which deal with abnormally sized men. Kind of makes me feel like Riverdancing.”
9. “I lived in a world of shame. I hid my bruises as if they were evidence of crimes I had committed. I didn’t tell Mama. I couldn’t tell Mama.”
10. “You don’t have to be sober to be able to weigh spinach.”
11. “It’s ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Have you any idea what it’s like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn’t something you’re born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation what’s said in the Bible… Genesis 9, Verse 27. At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it… you breathe it. You marry it.”
12. “I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers never look at the road in old movies.”
13. “Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.”

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