The sun was shining like a congratulation.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

If your freedom can not develop you than it is better to alive as a slave.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor