“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.”

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”

“I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty.”

“I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.”