I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.