It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.