Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

The normal economic system works itself.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.

Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.