You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael

“You have superpowers.” "I don't have supernerves,” she said, “so don't get on them.”

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

I am going down first. Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone. (Lucan whispered to Lena)

Live life with creative purpose.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

Basically all I've done is keep my promise.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.