Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

Luck always favors the comely.

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.