They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Need is never a good basis for any relationship.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'