“I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. ”

“I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.”

“the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.”

“Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.”

“This is where he should say that he is in love with me, that I have changed his life and that he loves me for it. But he doesn't. Is it because he is shy? Or because he is too young to say such a thing? Or is it merely because he does not love me? The worst of it is, I am falling in love with him.”

“I feel like a hundred dollars.”

“I need a hundred dollars and some suction”