Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!

You taste so good. I could kiss you forever. (Adron) You’re not so bad yourself in a lethal, I’ll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-wrong kind of way. (Livia)

Love is when there is no denying "it"...that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside.