Michael Nava Quotes

[John, about children] "Mostly, you have to listen and try to hear what they're really telling you and remember that, half the time, they don't know themselves."

[John, to Henry] "Here's your dog. Con todo, like you said. Mustard, relish, onion — you sure it's okay for you to eat this with your heart and all?"
"If it's not," I said, biting into the hot dog, "I'll die a happy man."

The isolation that was so much a part of the city's psyche, the feeling that its ten million people were all living parallel lives that never intersected

[Dr Hayward, to Henry Rios after his heart attack] "You're still a relatively young man. You'll be around for a while. Make the best of it, Henry. Live every moment as fully as you can, even if all you're doing is eating a bowl of soup."

[Elena] "My God is not an unpleasant old man who lives in the sky and forces people to make desperate choices and then condemns them if they get it wrong. For me, God is the clear inner voice that guides us to the choices that are right for us, if we're willing to listen. The choices are different for everyone."

[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."

[Henry] "...when you start running from yourself, you end up in some pretty dark places."

[Asuras] "There are means people and there are ends people. The means people create distinctions among means and call it morality. The ends people understand that in this world, in this system we're born into, anything that gets you what you want is a good thing."

[Donati] "You couldn't have planned a worse place to put a city than LA."

[Alex] Big ideas don't pay the rent.

[Donati] "You see why I don't advertise I'm gay?" "No, not exactly, Nick." "Because I don't want to be confused with people like Bob." He tossed back his drink. "Drag queens, leather queens, all those sick fucks who parade around and make it impossible for the rest of us to have normal lives."

[Henry] Life is a kind of exile and we all long to go home. Who said that?

[Inez] "...If you consort with lowlifes you've got to expect complications."

[Alex] "I never knew how many ways there were to fail until I moved here."

[Henry Rios] "We never know anyone as well as we think we do."