Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.

Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.

Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.