“Vyshinsky: "You thought you could retain some independence?"”

“I thought you guys said only some of the vampire bikes could fly?"
"Only some of them can!"
"How did you know this was one of them?”

“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”

“Glorious and beautiful
Were youth's feeling and youth's thought—
Would that we did not annul
All that in us then was wrought!
Would their influence could remain
When the hope and dream depart;
Would we might through life retain
Still some youth within the heart!”

“I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?”

“If you could only imprison a thought, then intellectual tyranny might succeed. If you could only take an argument and put a striped suit of clothes on it -- if you could only take a good, splendid shining fact and lock it up in some dungeon of ignorance, so that its light would never again enter the mind of man, then you might succeed in stopping human progress. Otherwise, no.”

“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”

“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”

“Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.”

“The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.”