[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 … - Michael Nava

[Alicia Gavilán, to Miguel] "We are all birds in cages, but some of us find reason to sing."

[Dr Hayward, to Henry, after his heart attack] "Sex is not going to kill you — well, let me amend that. Safe sex is not going to kill you."

[Henry Rios, with Raymond Reynolds, therapist] "Somewhere along the line, I had died." "What does that mean, Henry?" he inquired in his mild voice. "The thing that makes us human, the recognition of being alive, I had lost that. I drowned it in bourbon and kept myself so busy with work that I hadn't even noticed until that moment."