“The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him.”

“Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.”

“If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.”

“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”

“To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.”

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”